“Are you happy?” Fer asks, as he rubs my scalp, in preparation for attaching two dozen sensors to my body. I’ve just told him that I’ve written a book called ULTIMATE HAPPINESS. “Yes, I’m happy, but not in the sense of being in bliss ...
Dragonflies were Linda’s totem animal. They would often fly up to her and hover in front of her, or land on her hand and remain still while she spoke softly to them. Linda could sit by the pond for hours watching a new dragonfly hatch ...
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the former. Albert Einstein Sebastian Junger’s new book entitled War, tells of his experience embedded with troops in a remote part of ...
Last night I watched a captivating1958 film called Inn of the Sixth Happiness, based on the true story of a British maid named Gladys Aylward (played by Ingrid Bergman), who sets off alone for China in the 1930’s to become a ...
In 1959, Tsung Tsai, a Buddhist monk, escaped from the Red Army troops that destroyed his monastery, and walked three thousand miles across China to Hong Kong, nearly dying in the process. Years later he ends up living in upstate New ...
You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Anthony de Mello I love setting ...
