M: My general thought is to read widely and to incorporate a love for reading. Learning to love to read, I think, is the optimal thing, because it gives you a skill you can take anywhere.W: So you’re not too concerned like some parents with the content they’re reading. I know ...
China Town truly comes alive at night, with its vibrant street markets and lively atmosphere. As the sun sets, the neon lights illuminate the streets, creating a mesmerizing ambiance. Whether you're hunting for unique souvenirs, bargaining for antiques, or simply soaking up the lively atmosphere...
8 We've booked ourselves so full of prescheduled activities there’s no time left for those magic, spontaneous moments that make us feel most alive. We seldom stop to think of all the experiences we are eliminating from our lives when weload up our appointment book. Reserving tickets for ...
When we focus on being human and forget the being, we get caught up in our egos, and fact is, we only think of being right and others wrong when we identify with the ego. So forgiveness is basically about the undoing of the main egoic structures of the human mind. It is in other ...
2. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”―Marianne Williamson Everyday Application:Gratitudefor the good things in our life will always bring joy. Even if it is just the joy of waking up in the morning. You are alive and each da...
depends on participation in social relationships with others. Still, there is a beauty about being alive, and feeling worthwhile. Recent research in neurobiology provides us with evidence that such experiences belong to our humanity, and that the idea of human dignity is a fitting concept for nami...
We need water to stay alive and if we don’t use water 1 , we will run out! Water is needed for just about everything we do. We need it to farm, to wash, to provide power, to control fires and—most importantly—to drink. 2 water, we would all die. So we should all ...
“Even though we think we’re alive, unless and until we come to God, we’re actually the walking dead, and Jesus called people that when He said, ‘let the dead bury their dead'” (Matthew 8:22). “So let’s connect the dots now. When Mary saw the stone had been removed from...
But when we give without expectation, when we are able to acknowledge what a gift it is to have something to give in the first place, that alone will fill us with an overwhelming sense of gratitude, love and compassion. The world in which we can give becomes larger; and so do we. ...
Revisiting “Pound Cake” six years later, I never considered Drake to be one of hip hop’s kingpins keeping East Coast Mafioso alive in the 2010s mainstream. Of course, there is the golden-hued album cover of him sitting behind his OVO owl forTake Care, but I’ve always regarded that...