How Can We Journey Well Toward the Finish Line?
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Unless there is some time for being together psychologically -...
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- Sep 8
- 5 min
Naikan: Look Inside, A Daring Way To Find Gratitude and The Good Life
The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to...
- Aug 30
- 6 min
Stop! Don't Stifle That Gift - Go To Aristotle
“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.” Aristotle When we have trouble...
- Aug 22
- 4 min
Why Did I Do That!? How To Switch That Question And WISE Up
"Know thyself” - well-known philosophical maxim originating in ancient Greece How can we be wiser? Particularly how can we be wiser with...
- Jul 4
- 4 min
Three Habits, Or Democratic Virtues, of Highly Effective People...Yearning A More Perfect Union
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Today on this Fourth of July,...
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Bias Can't Be Outlawed, Now What?
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...
- Jun 13
- 3 min
Freeing Ourselves From Prison... and Expanding Our Circle
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...
- Jun 5
- 7 min
Awkward. The Questions That Lead To Love
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations of which the peace of the whole world rests. Mahatma Gandhi...
- May 22
- 6 min
THIS Makes You Young
“Everyone Desires Long Life, Not One Old Age” Jonathan Swift, early English satirist My older son, Hoby, is a human performance expert...
- May 10
- 8 min
Peace, Inner Work, and We're All In This Together
While working on nuclear weapons I became acquainted on intimate terms with my own self-righteousness - the captivating, invigorating...
- Apr 18
- 5 min
Bee-ing Better - It Cannot Be Otherwise
It is a mistake to think that there are times when you can safely address a person without love. You can work with objects without love –...
- Mar 14
- 5 min
Everything Everywhere All At Once
You Are Not Unlovable. There Is Always Something To Love. Even In A Stupid, Stupid Universe Where We Have Hot Dogs For Fingers, We Get...
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
- Jan 8
- 4 min
Living Our Values, A Surprising Obstacle
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." Socrates “Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology...
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
Want World Peace? A Better Relationship Harvest? Try More Farming
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." B. C. Forbes, Scottish-American...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
Seeing Rightly, Taming Each Other
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often....
- Nov 4, 2022
- 6 min
No More Mind Reading
"Cognitive distortions: Mind reading - Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and...
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Sawubona, Say What?
"We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging." Dr. Hunter...
- Oct 24, 2022
- 4 min
It's About Belonging, Not Belongings and The Stories We Tell
“It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.” Dr....
- Oct 4, 2022
- 4 min
Attached to the Community? It's On Us
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. ...
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