All relationships involve negotiations. The title of this topic comes from Paul Simon's song "Train in the Distance", wherein Simon writes "negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one ... Read More about Negotiations and Other Interactions
We may develop strength. Whatever its source, it facilitates empowerment. There are several kinds of strength, including physical strength, inner strength, and political strength, or strength in ... Read More about Strength
Reverence - natural piety - is a useful attitude that lifts us to higher ground, inspires us, and makes us more productive. Reverence is an attitude, and a way of looking at things. Many ... Read More about Living in Reverence and Natural Piety
Because political decisions must be made, some form of democracy is most consistent with a commitment to everyone’s well-being. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's ... Read More about Democracy – Self-government
When everything within us is in agreement, we become more whole. This opens a door into spirituality.. Internal integration is the harmonic component of spirituality in relation to the self. When ... Read More about Living with Integrity and Character, in the Wholeness of Being
By living vitally, we re-create ourselves, and are made new. When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest woods . . . [Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”] A vigorous five-mile walk will do more ... Read More about Re-creating
Whatever our past has been, it is ours. Our best strategy is to embrace it, nurture it, reconcile with it, and create our future as we wish it to be. The difficulties of someone's early life may ... Read More about Embracing the Past
The spiritual life is an especially joyful life. Exuberance is a sense of overflowing joy. A cup can only be filled to its brim but when we have the sense that life is so abundant that our joy ... Read More about Living in Exuberance, Glory and Ecstasy
Miracles are occurrences and states of affairs that we did not think were possible. Frequently, people underestimate what is possible. Faith produces miracles. Miracles happen everyday, change your ... Read More about Working Miracles