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Continue reading Self-Actualization not Self-Image Actualization
Continue reading The Courage to Doubt Our Religious Beliefs
Continue reading Disillusionment as a Blessing
However before your time arrives, life’s to dos shunt aside your good intention. They’re innumerable: feed the kids; drive the kids to and from school, pre-school, after school; do laundry; clean house; go to the cleaners, bank, supermarket, gas station; see you friend for lunch; pay bills; answer emails and phone calls; not to mention your job and its overtime demands… things to do ad infinitum. And another day darkens, leaving your soul again uncared for. Continue reading The Tyranny of the To Do List
Sometimes the lives we live – or don’t live – weigh heavily upon our souls. We feel alienated, bored, discontent, anxious, or depressed. It is then that we might be tempted to turn away from such pain by losing ourselves in mind-numbing distractions such as TV, the internet, or another glass of wine. On the other hand, we might instead turn off the distractions, turn towards our symptomatic pain, and listen to its potentially life-changing message. Continue reading Whose Life are You Living?
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Imagine two persons who at the end of their lives are identical in attainments. Two doctors – with the same degrees from the same school, both happily married with good children, living in identical houses, driving the same cars, etc., etc.. Yet why might one feel fulfilled while the other feel abject despair?
What can we really know with certainty about the mysteries of existence? Yet somewhere on the planet today, like too many days before us, because of his or her religious convictions an adherent of one god will bludgeon to death an adherent of another god. But let’s put this religious certainty into perspective.
Despite truthfulness being essential for an authentic life, we can deceive ourselves in innumerable ways. All to often we buffer ourselves from disappointment, unhappiness, and pain by avoiding things, not showing up in our lives, or lying to ourselves. But does putting your head in the sand really work?
So finally you have decided to make time in your life for yourself. Perhaps you want to meditate. Maybe you yearn to do some journal writing. Possibly you just want to take some time to reflect or at long last do nothing at all, and just be. Honoring your heartfelt need to care also for yourself, you schedule some time just for you.
