Reflections On the Art of Increasing Joy, Meaning and Belonging In Daily Living
Thanks again to everyone who purchased The Secret Within. Sales and feedback have been great. If you haven’t picked up a copy, click on over to Amazon. The practices I share in the book changed my life! This is the final post in a three-part series providing a brief overview of the book. I also …
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Thanks again to everyone who purchased my new book, The Secret Within. I would greatly appreciate it if you posted a review on Amazon. This is the second post in a three-part series that provides a brief preview of the book. I have also posted a video on my YouTube channel featuring an interview I …
The Secret Within-Part 1 A special thanks to everyone who bought The Secret Within last week, propelling it briefly to #3 on Amazon’s new releases in the Emotional Mental Health category. Reviews posted on Amazon are greatly appreciated! This post, along with two more that follow, provides a brief preview of the book. ———————————————————— Part …
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Announcing the publication of my new book, The Secret Within: Finding Peace In Hard Times, by Clipston Publishing, now available on Amazon. How does one live joyfully despite difficult circumstances? Here’s what I learned after many years. Stressful events can dominate our thoughts. Learning to let go of troubling thoughts is like discovering a new …
What is the purpose of education? Presumably, it’s to learn things. But how do we determine whether or not that is occurring? My education was geared toward providing answers. Students with excellent memories held a significant advantage. I’m not sure that works anymore. I remember challenging my teachers with questions like “Why do I need …
What are the most important questions of life? Philosophical questions addressing life’s open-ended mysteries interest me most. I’m a mystic at heart, a person who, according to Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), seeks “union with reality.” From a practical standpoint, that means not only endeavoring to improve my life and the lives of those around me, but …
ChatGPT 3.5 was publicly released in November 2022. Prior to that time, very few people had directly interfaced with artificial intelligence. In January 2023, I asked Chat to review my blog and was blown away by its summary. I am a researcher by nature and immediately saw this was something very different. I signed up …
Have you ever driven down the highway, arrived at your intended exit, and then wondered how you got there? Every time that happens, it scares me to death. Would I have snapped out of my thoughts if a deer had run out in front of me? When absorbed in thought, we’re oblivious to what’s going …
“The world is deep, and deeper than day can comprehend.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra I’ve always been interested in the bizarre, stranger-than-fiction workings of the sub-atomic world. It’s been said that the behavior of subatomic particles is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. When an electron (a negatively …
Imagine, if you will, that a valuable box of paints is bestowed upon you; paints that have special properties, rendering them capable of producing a masterwork. -They are colorfast; every hue will outlive you. -They easily mix together or stand alone as you choose. -The paints express even the lightest brush strokes. “But I’m not …