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Apparently in an interview, Einstein once said, “The most important question that any person can ask is whether or not the universe is friendly place?”

Who knew that a gorilla had the capacity to save the world?

When I started this One Teaching series, I didn’t know how long I’d be able to keep up with the daily posts. I only knew that I wanted to take on the goal of writing and posting daily.

As a problem solver, when I sense conflict approaching, I will either try to avoid it or address it head on and work to resolve it as quickly as possible.

We can “get lost” in many more ways than just navigationally. We can get lost in books, relationships, health, work, just about any other area of our lives.

Recently, I got tired of the same stations on Spotify so I chose Pink Floyd and was immediately transported back to my teens.

Regardless of how it gets done, everyone makes it out of the corn maze eventually. There is no wrong or right way to do it.

Taking the time to intentionally quiet the mind to give it some space can help. Sometimes us analytical types just need to “lose our minds” for a little while.

After years of personal experience with goal setting and working to create better habits, I actually think asceticism might be a whole lot easier than the way we operate in modern Western society.

I’ve heard it said that if you want to be successful in life you have to have a clear vision of your outcome and you have to know your purpose.

Would you agree that there is misguided perception in our society that suggests forgiveness is about letting someone off the hook for a misgiving after they’ve shown remorse or said they are sorry?

Metallica was one of the greatest of these bands and in 1991 they released “The Unforgiven.”

As humans, our psyche contains both masculine and feminine elements, but for each of us, one tends to exist in the unconscious.

I’ve thought about the idea of enlightenment quite a bit over the course of my adult life. It seems like something that one has to work at to achieve over a long period of time.

Courage is something that we have to find within ourselves. Encouragement is something we can give to others.

When I was about ten years old, I received a Transformers Dinobot toy for my birthday. The Dinobots were dinosaurs that transformed into robot soldiers.

Whether we think about pro’s surfing the big waves of Jaws in Maui or a middle-aged dad boogie boarding with his kids along the Carolina coastline, there are life lessons we can learn about riding waves.

There are several piles of books at my house waiting to be read. It is my hope to someday read them all.

I love learning and I am highly pragmatic. For this reason, I am a big fan of the For Dummies series of books.

The story of ACIM is that it was scribed, not authored, by psychologist Helen Schucman, Ph.D. She heard an inner voice that identified itself to her as Jesus.

Music is so important because it brings us into alignment as both an emotional and intellectual experience. Bob Marley’s words, in this great song, are simple but true.

One day during a morning run, I was trotting along listening to A Year to Live, by Steven Levine when a quote stopped me in my in my tracks.