Most people think they do not have time to consider issues carefully. They are sloppy thinkers. We value the cultivation of incisiveness, which is the art of considering details. Details matter. In ... Read More about Being Incisive
Wednesday
Interlude
Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886) An interlude is a brief rest, a brief time of calming or reflection. Take a breath: a new year is just around the corner. ... Read More about Interlude
Living Purposefully
As a young man, I had a vision of how life might be - how I wanted it to be. I made some choices, sacrificing some things for other things, with a wordless conviction that the path of my life would be ... Read More about Living Purposefully
Being Content
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belong to you. [Lao-Tzu, Poem 44.] Being rich is being happy with what you ... Read More about Being Content
Being Faithful to Commitments
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. [Helen Keller] There are thousands who ... Read More about Being Faithful to Commitments
Being an Agent for Revolution
Evanescence – Impermanence
We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract ... Read More about Evanescence – Impermanence
Being Fully Engaged
Early on, we identified "engaging the world" as a basic building block for ethical and personal development. This refers to engaging at some level, coming out of the cocoon. Engagement as an aspect ... Read More about Being Fully Engaged
Political Equality
People have always schemed to gain political advantage over others. In the long age of kings, political equality was not even discussed but since democracy began to emerge in the late eighteenth ... Read More about Political Equality