I’ve given a lot of thought to the question, “How can I fix the world?” After all, if you watch the news, it’s distressing. And you reasonably can feel hopeless given the violence in the world and lack of compassion. But there’s a simple answer to the question, “How can…
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” Lao Tzu Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and is considered to be the founder of Taoism. (I’ll note that modern scholars believe that Lao Tzu never actually existed, but rather, he was…
I used to think that if I just worked hard enough, at some point my self-improvement efforts could come to an end. I would reach a point at which I’d mastered this thing called Life. Well, I’ve been working on self-improvement for decades, and what I can tell you is…
I’ll let you in on a little secret about life: There is no wisdom without compassion. To put it another way, you can’t act wisely in life if you don’t start from a place of compassion for everyone and everything around you. In fact, every time we act in an…
The mistake that many of us make in life is that we fail to take good care of ourselves. We take care of the needs of our employers, children, pets and spouses, but we forget to meet our own needs. And in doing so, we are living life backwards. Because…