One obvious reason to pursue the joy of learning is for one to qualify oneself for better employment. Economic statistics state that educated workers with a bachelor's degree in the United States earn around 60 percent more than those with a high school diploma.Adding to the happiness of extended education, the economic benefits of doing so are limitless. While money is a positive thing, it does not always equate to happiness for individuals [...]

I would eventually learn that the art of tuning out was a skill, long years in development with the requirement of specialized equipment – namely, children. I have three children. Noisy, argumentative distractions that have a keen sense of the perfect moment to hit me up for some money or ask for a privilege that would have normally been denied. [...]

Usually the children who are good at something and talented are lauded and feted by society; there’s no room for the also-rans and the jack-of-all-trades in a world where you have to excel academically, have a flair for the arts, sing like a bird, dance like a peacock, play like a jock, and so on and so forth, to be able to say that you’re a success. This is exactly why we grow up fearing failure.

Beyond the new frontiers, unfamiliar but wondrous, there is so much to discover and experience. We are basically seekers and are using the pieces of truth that we discover as building blocks, stacking them up, sometimes taking one out but mostly adding and expanding. Why do we do that? Because deep down we know that truth is expansive, it is limitless. Beyond every question lies the potential of a

We use words all the time, we use them to convey our ideas to other people and influence them. Countless leaders used words to motivate people and to ultimately cause them to behave in a certain way. What we aren’t always aware of is that words are influencing us the moment we utter them. Did [...]

Some of the books I read talk about doing what’s easy in life. They say that if faced with an obstacle you should always seek an easier path, because there are a lot more ways to choose from than we can see. From my experience sometimes when you are doing what’s hard you are making [...]

In my previous post about this subject I wrote about self acceptance and loving yourself. In this post I want to elaborate and tell you an interesting allegory I recently read. One man was so troubled by the look of his shadow and felt so detested by his footprints and steps, that he decided to [...]

We are animals. Yes you’re an animal too. Yeah I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking – “maybe you’re an animal. I’m a human being, I’m superior to animals”. And that’s OK that’s how you were raised. In fact that’s how everyone are raised. One of the translations of the world animal is a living [...]