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We have a completely misguided idea of how to become happy. The billions of dollars spent trying to convince us to buy the newest razor or sedan does not help. We see people that are famous and they seem rich and successful and happy, whether they are or not! We imagine that if we only […]

Too many of us spend too much of our lives angry with people, going even so far as hating some. People hate their co-workers or their former spouse. Some of us hate people who vote different from how we vote. Others hate Wall Street executives, politicians, the guy next door whose dog keeps pooping in

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To an outsider watching one of us, it would be difficult on any given day to tell if the person being watched is really living forever. So, live that way. We live forever every single day until some day we no longer do. That was not today for you or for me. It will likely

Sentient beings aren’t really that complicated conceptually. We have an instruction set (DNA) to specify chemical reactions and some sort of network of brain cells that control our actions, feelings, and thoughts (more chemical reactions). We are just a bunch of chemical reactions. While this may be rather unromantic, it is also equally encouraging. If

There is no reason to believe that there is any meaning to life. There is also no reason to think that there isn’t. It is equally valid is to consider whether there are meanings or just meaning. Why can there not be an infinite number of meanings to life? Why can there not be a

Too many of us spend too much of our lives angry with people, going even so far as hating some. People hate their co-workers or their former spouse. Some of us hate people who vote different from how we vote. Others hate Wall Street executives, politicians, the guy next door whose dog keeps pooping in

Everything that you will ever need is inside you right now. There is no need to climb Mt. Everest or run a marathon. Work instead on truly calming your mind, for a minute, an hour, a month. There is no need to find a soul mate or a drinking buddy. You have a tireless infinitely

It took me years of therapy to really understand that I have a profound lack of confidence. It took many fewer sessions to really accept this. This fear, this lack of confidence is not rooted in my mind but rather in my heart and my gut. The apparent inconsistency which led to my multi-decade long

Everything is relative; there are no absolutes. There is likely as profound of a lesson in exploring whether or not it is possible to make the absolute statement that absolutes do not exist (doesn’t it contradict itself?) as there is in living “absolutes do not exist”. But, for me, embracing that everything is relative has