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Everyday Grace in the Supermarket: Abundance Truly Is Everywhere

I want to share a quick story with you about something that happened at Trader Joe’s grocery store yesterday. Lately, I’ve been teaching a monthlong mentoring program for the men entitled The...

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Soul Memory

Question: If soul is collection of desires, memories, and concepts, then what about the cellular memories throughout the body. Since soul is not a physical/material thing  then how does it retain...

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10 Steps To Finding Out What You Want

Step #1 Don’t tell me what you are not – tell me what you are. Don’t tell me what you let go of – tell me what you embrace. Don’t tell me what you need to get over – tell me what you are expressing....

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Losing Your Ego, Losing Your Halo

Why do we give away our essence and exchange the original for a copy?   The answer is complex, nuanced, and case-specific, but here’s a bird’s-eye view of the problem.  You see, the brain translates...

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How Well Do You Know Yourself? Take This Quiz

A key–perhaps the key–to a happy life is self-knowledge, because as the Fifth Splendid Truth holds, I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature. In my own case, I’ve found that the...

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Secret of Adulthood: Accept Ourselves, and Expect More From Ourselves

Of everything that I’ve considered and concluded about happiness and good habits, I think this phrase sums it up best. We must strive to know ourselves, and accept the truth about ourselves, but at the...

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Don’t Fall for the Common Habits Myth that Stops People from Making...

People often ask me, “Why do we struggle so hard to change our habits–why do we so often fail?” There are a few reasons, but there’s one big one — a popular myth about habits that leads people astray....

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Are You Clutter-Blind? Or Do You Know Someone Who Is?

One thing that continues to surprise me about the nature of good habits and happiness is the degree to which, for most people, outer order contributes to inner calm. More, really, than it should. In...

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Recovering a Lost World, Just in Time 

A common trait in every civilization known to us is now fast disappearing. This trait is the thirst for knowing the self. Most people have read that the ancient Greeks pursued the goal of “Know...

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Is There One “Best” Type of Temperament? Or Tendency?

“Temperament does not predestine one man to sanctity and another to reprobation. All temperaments can serve as the material for ruin or for salvation…It does not matter how poor or how difficult a...

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