You know we will all die, and hopefully have some sort of ceremony where loved ones and others get to say goodbye to us. But that inevitable death can make a big difference in the way we live our life today.
"In the US we have trouble understanding because we don't see how vulnerable people are who are poor and without education, without any hopes that their children's lives will be better than theirs have been."
How can we think about getting upset in a manner that might bring a level of serenity to our lives? The key is, I think, that we need to be responsible for what upsets us.
Most resolutions fail because they don't make us happy while trying to achieve them. For instance losing weight, exercising more, working harder. Also, they aren't attached to anything bigger than ourselves.
Letting an incumbent who worked against progressive values go without a primary challenge sends a message to other Senators that we, the democratic base, can be ignored.
Fascism is a word that is overused when one political interest group is describing the bad conduct of another opposition political interest group. Th...
The greatest area of split and misunderstanding, which I discover among my friends and other writers and teachers, is the split between the longing of the spirit and material desire.
We are shifting from a global culture of consumers, whether for material wealth or power or spiritual states, to a culture of contribution.
The president announced a handful of new initiatives designed to make it easier for American workers to save more for retirement, that makes use of behavioral economics.
