We spend our lives chasing goals like they are butterflies. To catch one is definitely satisfying, but the gratification is as fleeting as a flutter of wings. Almost the second that a goal is within our grasp, our eyes are distracted by another flitting by. Why don’t...
Today is your birthday. Perhaps not the anniversary of your birth, but a day when you are given the gift of another 24 hours to savor life. You wake up and slowly become aware of the pillow beneath your head, the quality of light streaming into the window, the...
Christmas is much like Thanksgiving in that, while we celebrate something simple—gratitude and love—we go about it with such hell-bent enthusiasm that it is ultimately too complicated to be felt. It is like putting on a lavish Broadway production at an intersection...
There is nothing that fosters a joyous life more quickly and effectively than gratitude. Gratitude takes us from a state of perceived deprivation to an awareness of our fulfillment. Iyanla Vanzant said, “We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has...
Americans often infuse their holidays with ironic twists: Halloween, a former pagan celebration of fertility, becomes a festival of fear; Easter, traditionally a Christian celebration of spiritual rebirth, is altered to hiding eggs, a pagan fertility symbol. But...
When we clean out the refrigerator, we toss out food with great zeal, intent on finishing the onerous chore and giving no thought to what we are throwing away. Yet, it is important to take a moment to be conscious of what we are discarding. Think of the composition of...
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