When I consider the trillions of dollars spent on health and education around the world I cannot help but ask the questions: Why? To what end? We get people better in medical offices and hospitals and condition their minds with schooling, but I have to wonder sometimes if we're not missing the point by simply …
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The Middle of the Pack
Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. Life is short, and Art long, opportunity fleeting, experience perilous, and decision difficult. - Hippocrates As I mentioned yesterday, one of the great challenges from the standpoint of inner life is to find the means by …
We are Eternal
At the core of each living human being is an angel, perfect and whole. The angel is the "being" part of you; your body, mind and heart are the "human" part of you. Your true identity, then, is angelic, mighty and eternal. If you make the mistake as many do of identifying more with the outer …
Full of Life, Now
Full of Life, Now by Walt Whitman Full of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States, To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence, To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you. When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible; Now it is …
Changing Gears
Fewer and fewer people have an opportunity to learn how to drive a standard car, which is too bad because in doing so you learn important lessons about timing and develop a complex and useful coordination that can be hard to find elsewhere. Anyone who has learnt this skill likely experienced the lurching starts and …
We Have Left Her
Human beings like to distill complex concepts into simple, often simplistic terms. When you consider truth, for instance, many think simply of the "facts" or "telling the truth." Limiting your definition and understanding of "truth" to "not lying", however, is no different than thinking that reducing "love" to "sexual desire." There is much more to …
Every Young Man
Every young man should learn to love, respect and embody truth. This love precedes love for family, country, etc., for fidelity to truth establishes the foundation upon which love for all other externalities is built. The fact that this is not taught to young men is the great jeremiad of our present state. Our educational …
After a Storm Comes a Calm
The day before yesterday we had a massive set of storms passed through, but fortunately we were spared the worst of it. Our Governor declared a state of emergency for two counties just to the west of us as they took the brunt of the severe thunderstorms and a rather large tornado. The frogs in …
Influence
Influence by Gregg Hake The way my boys Look up to me Enkindles poise And dignity. You are wise to be careful about what you allow to influence you. You live in a world of influences, some weak, some strong, but none of them can be of any effect until you choose to give them …
The Point of Health
I started a juice cleanse this past weekend and if you've never done one, it's a remarkable physical and dare I say, spiritual experience. The notion of consuming only water or juice to cleanse the body is not a new one, in fact, virtually every major religion has some form of fasting ritual which supposedly …
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