This is a catch-up week, with no single theme. The main theme is a broad overview of personal development, from the foundations (being grounded) to their scope (being well-rounded), and across the ... Read More about Being Grounded
Sunday
Celebrating
In summer we calmed ourselves and rested. Now, at the beginning of winter and the end of the calendar year, many people restore their souls and refresh their spirits in another way: with joyous and ... Read More about Celebrating
Living a Sacred Life
Every thinking person must be filled with wonder and awe just by looking up at the stars. [Albert Einstein] For a Humanist and scientific naturalist, the palpable reality of life is sacred; and if ... Read More about Living a Sacred Life
Surrendering – Accepting the Things We Cannot Change
. . . that sad but easeful core of peace that is the reward when all is renounced. [Maestro Benjamin Zander commenting on the solo cello statement near the end of the final movement of Mahler's Ninth ... Read More about Surrendering – Accepting the Things We Cannot Change
Finding and Occupying Your Niche
. . . each of us can work to change a small portion of events. . . It is from numberless diverse acts of courage . . . that the belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands ... Read More about Finding and Occupying Your Niche
Being an Agent for Change
Change appears on this calendar only once every few years. This illustrates the point that major change - as opposed to minor change, which occurs constantly - should occur infrequently. People need ... Read More about Being an Agent for Change
Focusing
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. [attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus] Some people cast their attention to many things, the Renaissance Man for example. Others ... Read More about Focusing
Flourishing
Early on, we identified some basic preferences, which give shape and content to an ethical system: health, satisfaction of basic needs, pleasure, longevity, happiness and fulfillment. Many ... Read More about Flourishing
Equality
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. . . . Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. [Fyodor Dostoevsky, ... Read More about Equality