Category: Personal Growth

by E. Raymond Rock
You know, in many ways we are all the same, as we make our way through life trying to be happy. Happiness is a natural inclination. But as time goes by, many of the things we run after eventually lose their mystique and we find ourselves back at square one when for […]

by Deborah Hill
You’d think that after skiing for over 46 years I’d stop being afraid when I hit a rough spot. But no, skiing in Utah I noticed the old feeling loomed over me like a dense cloud when I hit some difficult terrain. Why I’d put up with this feeling for so long I […]

by Gina Lake
A lack of forgiveness keeps us tied to stories about the past. These stories are manufactured by the ego and keep us involved with the egoic mind. They keep us stuck in the past and stuck in a certain image of ourselves (usually a negative one) that corresponds to that story. As long […]

By Laurie Kessler
Direct voice medium Hans Christian King has been at it for over 50 years. But after several decades of giving private readings, he finally decided to pass the torch and teach what he knows to others. Recently, during a stopover in California’s central valley on his way to Los Angeles, King talked about […]

by Gina Lake
The only reality is this moment. It is all that really exists. The past is a memory, the future is a fantasy, and memories and fantasies are just ideas—quite inaccurate ones at that. Ideas arise in the now, but they are only a small part of the present moment. However, because we […]

by Christopher R. Edgar

I recently had an interesting and wonderful experience while waking up in the morning. Sometimes, when I first open my eyes after sleeping, I get the sense that I don’t remember who I am. In that instant, I feel like I have no memory of what I’ve […]

by Marlene Buffa
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
-William Shakespeare

The ancient Greeks, as early as the 5th century BC, used the theatre to explore the tragedy and comedy of life. Athens promoted the performing traveling troupe to encourage […]

By Jock Brocas
The domino effect is not a science but a truth that is as old as the laws of the universe. It is universal knowledge and a gift for all of humankind – it’s a gift that we can all give and costs nothing, but the effects can be staggering. Why the domino effect? […]

by Keith Varnum
I cringed at every loaded word in the title of Dale Carnegie’s celebrated book, How to Win Friends and Influence People! My mother—God bless her!—made me take the Dale Carnegie Training forty years ago when I was in junior high school. The idea that I had to change myself to “win” friends and […]

by Marlene Buffa
While visiting my dear Aunt Frances in Hospice, I asked her,
“What’s the secret to a successful marriage?”
“How should I know?” she replied, “I’ve only been married once.”
“Exactly,” I smiled, remembering her speak fondly of her 51 years with my uncle.
You can’t help who you fall in love with.
Personally, I never used to believe […]