What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?

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I’m a bit late in writing this, given that we are already 25 days into the New Year, but I believe considering the next step forward, is something that’s always relevant.  The New Year, marking the end of one period and the start of another just happens to be a particularly good time to reflect [...]

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Are Babies Born Happy? Is It The World That Makes Us Miserable?

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I was asked this question recently and thought I’d share my thoughts and ask your opinion on it.  The question was; I was flying home the other week and was thinking about a metaphor for life that has kept dashing back and forth through my mind since then. Looking out of the window before starting [...]

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Popular Quotes On Truth And Honesty

August 19, 2011

  The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure. Sri Chinmoy If you tell the truth, [...]

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The Biggest Mistake In Personal or Spiritual Growth

August 13, 2011

I’m in the middle of writing a report at the moment, but I came across something today and thought it was so important that I had to drop everything for a minute to share it with you.  It was while I was looking around at other people’s ideas on basic human needs, I came across [...]

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How To Overcome Feelings of Despair

July 4, 2011

It’s easy to fall into feelings of despair.  It happens to us all at some point in our life.  Something that hits us and makes us feel as if we are powerless to change these circumstances.  In fact there’s elements of our biology that predispose us to get sucked into that kind of thinking and [...]

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The Counter Intuitive Truth About Happiness

June 13, 2011

I was talking to a very experienced and very calm Teacher the other day.  And I asked him what was the biggest change in his teaching style from starting out as a newly qualified Teacher.  His response was that with a particularly rowdy class he would deliberately ignore them.  Where they are used to being [...]

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New Happiness Book Design – What Do You Think?

May 9, 2011

My book, The 32 Building Blocks of Happiness is being redesigned.  We’ve been working with a great designer to make the book more valuable and user friendly.  Some of what he’s done I’ve loved and some of the things I’m not too sure about.  But the most important view isn’t ours, but of the people [...]

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Thoughts On Happiness, Actions, Economics and Politics

April 24, 2011

For most of modern life, the success of a Country or Government has been measured in economic terms such as Gross Domestic Product. Recently there has been a big push by Psychologists and, interestingly, some Economists to include measurements of happiness and wellbeing. The term “Gross National Happiness” was first heard in 1972, when the [...]

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Albert Einstein Quotes On Life, Love, Science and God

March 4, 2011

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I [...]

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Follow Your Bliss. A Collection of Joseph Campbell Quotes

February 27, 2011

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought [...]

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