When one thing in our lives causes us the majority of our difficulty, discomfort, or distress, we must ask ourselves whether it is that thing or us that needs to change. This means we must determine how important this aspect of our life is to us. Is it essential or nonessential? Can we live without…
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Make A Decision
Many years ago, I was speaking to a dear friend of mine, a long time spiritual advisor to me, about a difficult decision I had to make. I could not figure out what the right thing to do was. Neither option in front of me was necessarily better or worse than the other. From an…
Choosing Better Or Worse
Every day, we get to choose whether we are going to live better or die faster. While we cannot control all of the external variables of our lives, we can control how we respond to and interact with them. We get to choose how we behave. We do not get to choose the entirety of…
Creating The Future
Will the person you hope to be tomorrow be proud of the decisions you made today? Forethought is a luxury. It means that we have the time, the tools, and the intelligence to be able to consider our lives beyond this moment, beyond the immediate need to survive. It means that, all things considered, we…
The Human Decision
Making the right decision is easy when you are motivated by the right things. Doing good is not necessarily a natural instinct. Our natural instinct is to do what most immediately benefits us. We are naturally selfish and short-sighted. This is our animal nature. To be human, to be humane, is to behave differently than…