Let us say that you were a complete hedonist. You only did what made you feel good. Wouldn't you still do things for other people? Give...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman Everyone is a multitude. ...

Sometimes you're just off. You're not even sure why. Stephen Covey argued that we are made up of four large parts: physical, soc...

I wonder how much energy people waste trying not to be who they are? It is true that everyone has some things about themselves that it would...

It might be that you’ve found your personal reason if it seems unreasonable to everyone else. Some things you do might do for money. That’s...

What if eternity is a place where you live among people who may be a different gender, of different skill sets and abilities, different race...

“The purpose of life is to fart around. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” -            Kurt Vonnegut I like the idea of new year's...

When I was 18, I read a novel about an 18 year old who fell in love with his aunt while working at a radio station with a wonderfully eccent...

Tonight my teacher wife said something profound. A person can't learn their strengths without doing their best. It's a curious thoug...

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman Resolution stops th...

Anything you are not free to say "no" to, you are unable to say "yes" to. You can't really choose what you are not f...

Arrogance is just nature's way of telling you that you have stalled in the quest to realize your potential. If you've mastered somet...

Of course the thing that no one admits is that the life of the child transcends our feeble attempts at parenting. Fortunately, the child is ...

Competition and cooperation play together in nature. Some like to emphasize the competition that pits the gazelles against each other, the l...

We’ve now reached a curious and potentially powerful point in history in which our social reality will be less defined by any one dominant i...

It had been a long time since I'd seen Maddie. She looked bright eyed and greeted me with a wet kiss on the cheek. She had to be closer ...

It is a wonderful thing that we’re unable to predict. If we could, it would suggest a lack of control over events, a lack of autonomy for th...

The novel’s great era didn’t just coincide with the rise of the university and the specialist because of rising levels of literacy – it help...

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ...

Bernard sighed. “How is it going, Bernard?” “I’ve been spending too much time alone,” he said. “That’s not all bad, is it?” I asked, trying ...