Don't Miss The Moment. It's All We

There Is A Purpose To Our Lives, Even If It Is Sometimes Hidden From Us, And Even If The Biggest Turning Points And Heartbreaks Only Make Sense As We Look Back, Rather Than As We Are Experiencing Them. So We Might As Well Live Life As If - As The Poet Rumi Put It - Everything Is Rigged In Our Favor.

By Any Sane Definition Of Success, If You Wake Up In A Pool Of Blood And Nobody Has Shot You, You Are Not Successful.

There Can Be No Clearer Indication Of How Undemocratic The Way We Finance Campaigns Is Than The Fact That Only One-quarter Of 1% Donate $200 Or More, And Only One-tenth Of 1% Gives $1,000 Or More.

Success For Me Is Going Beyond Money And Power, And Measuring Success Based On A Third Metric - One Founded On Well-being, Wisdom, Our Ability To Wonder And To Give Back. Money And Power By Themselves Are A Two-legged Stool. You Can Balance On Them For A While, But Eventually You're Going To Topple Over. Basically, Success The Way We've Defined It Is No Longer Sustainable.

So Great Becomes The Fear Of Losing What We Have That Many Of Us Rush Back To Hide Under The Temporary Shelter Of Convention Rather Than Follow The Path Of Self-discovery Wherever It Might Lead. Given Adequate Time And Sufficient Fear, We May Hide So Long That We Hardly Notice We're Slowly Suffocating.