The Happiest People Are The Most Giving

Moving Ourselves To The Background And Others To The Foreground Is Evidence That The (spiritual) Search Is Achieving Its Purpose.

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.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey Urges Us To Chart A Course Beyond The Suboptimal Solutions To All Our Crises - Beyond Left And Right, And Beyond The Many False Choices In Front Of Us. The 3rdalternative Is A Wise And Welcome Echo Of Einstein's Warning That The Problems We're Facing Today Cannot Be Solved By The Same Level Of Thinking That Created Them.

I Don't Like The Idea Of [having] A Thick Skin. I Think We [should] Be More Childlike.

Remind Yourself: You Are Not Your Thoughts Or Feelings