Focus on what you can control It is extremely important if you want to be successful in life, to understand what you can control and what you cannot control. This important insight was first emphasized by the ancient Greek Stoics who lived, taught and practiced about 2000 years ago. They believed strongly in the value […]
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God, the Creator of the Universe, loves you and all creation. You have the freedom to choose to love God, self, and others, or not. Loving God, self and others makes life more enjoyable and fulfilling. Humans evolved over many years from animals and still have many emotions and behaviors like animals. The human species
When I recently discovered the Teachings of Ptahhotep, the oldest surviving book in the world, published only 4500 years ago (more or less), something snapped inside my brain and I realized, we are living in the early days of civilization. Think about it. The dinosaurs ruled the earth for 160 million years, and little ol’
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I had only a brief brush with Stoic thinking as a philosophy major in college, and like most people, misunderstood its tremendous value. I thought “being Stoic” meant being tough and not showing your feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was reintroduced to Stoic thinking when, based on my other readings, amazon.com suggested
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What is the meaning of life? This is a question that humankind has asked for centuries. It is not a question that everyone asks, at least not seriously. Rather it is a question asked by people of a certain mindset – people who have a tendency to ponder the meaning of things and of existence.
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I have been working for years on the idea that we all have the choice of viewing reality at different levels, with different consequences. Years ago I heard a Nobel prize-winning biologist deliver a lecture in which he said, “The purpose of life is the procreation of the germ plasm.” The germ plasm is the
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