A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. So, what you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went ... Continue Reading »
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Real Riches Cannot Be Stolen
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde Times are hard. Jobs lost, homes lost, relationships lost. Savings, security, plans for the future. The loss of these things may be out of your control. But the loss of faith, the loss of hope, only you can ... Continue Reading »
To Make Peace with God, Spare Others from Having to Make Peace with You.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Tielhard de Chardin The vast majority of human beings believe in a religion or faith that sets their moral compass as they journey through life. They see themselves as a flawed human, striving to act according to their God's will on ... Continue Reading »
Before You Can Throw It Out, You Have To Let It Go!
Another miraculous part of being human is how we give sentimental value to things, but if we take it too far, we just get mental--irrational about letting go. This applies to the stuff in our homes, but also to the stuff in our hearts. You know these things--the things that have more meaning than actual value. When what something meant to you in ... Continue Reading »
What If We Just Admitted, We’re All Scared.
What would the world be like if everyone just dropped the defenses, the pretense, the shouting, the attacks, the accusations, the paranoia, the profiling, the blame, the excuses, the assumptions, and every other tactic of emotional camouflage, and just admitted to ourselves that we're all scared? What if we all, every last one of us, could admit ... Continue Reading »
Aim at Heaven
Aim at Heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C.S. Lewis When you look for meaning in your life, aim at Heaven. You don't have to be religious to appreciate this philosophy if you think of Heaven as that ideal state of being that exists beyond earthly rewards. All things physical are nurtured by the ... Continue Reading »