BREAKING BAD PROMISES
We have all made promises we wish we hadn’t made. We had a marriage that didn’t work out, a business deal we hadn’t thought through, or a friendship that has changed. If you are a person of integrity, you hate to break a promise, and you may feel guilty for doing so. Or you resent […]
THE HIDDEN PATH TO GREATNESS
I met a fellow whose father was a mail carrier in Modesto, California. Nearly every day he delivered science fiction magazines and comic books to a young guy who had graduated from high school, still living at home. The boy’s mother complained to the mailman, “He is living at home like a little boy.” The […]
A REFUGE FROM INSANITY
One of the movies we will be exploring in our upcoming MetaCinema series is the brilliant classic 1937 version of Lost Horizon. In the film, high-minded statesman Robert Conway, while escaping from a war in China, is kidnapped to Shangri-La, an idyllic utopian community tucked high in the Himalayas. There he meets the High Lama […]
WHAT BRINGS YOU LIFE?
We used to have a wonderful chef cater our retreat programs. Sally wowed our participants at every meal, and their feedback was stellar. Over time, however, the quality of her cooking declined. Whereas Sally’s homemade desserts, for example, used to be scrumptious, one day when I walked into the kitchen, I found a box of […]
DISARMED by PEACE
Paramahansa Yogananda suggested that it is helpful to think of the world as a big mental institution. Then when people act crazy, you don’t get shocked or upset; what else would you expect? This might be a helpful attitude as we look at what’s going on in our country. One commentator suggested that our nation […]
ONE SOURCE, MANY AVENUES
After 15 years of marriage, Tori and her husband decided to divorce. Their settlement negotiations went well until the final sticking point—their pension plans. Tori wanted to continue their marital agreement that when one of the couple died, the surviving spouse would be the beneficiary of the other partner’s pension plan. Her husband did not […]
