(On my second 40 day/40 night visit to Mt. Sinai, the following information was passed along to me.) What is the purpose of life? For the most part, life is cosmic good luck (a blessing, if you will) that you have received, and nothing else. There is generally no pre-ordained purpose to life, but there are obvious rules about how to proceed in life for a most good/least … [Read more...]
What You and I Like
What You (And I) Like Think about what you (and I) like. Do you like chicken, margarine, tunafish sandwiches or grinders, pizza, ice cream, cakes, cookies, hamburgers, meat-cheese-eggs-butter-margarine-pancakes-syrup, watching TV, the foods that you eat, that which you drink, or smoke? I like everything you like. I used to smoke two packs a day, be thirty pounds overweight, … [Read more...]
Looking to the Right and Not Looking to the Left
Looking to the Right and Not Looking to the Left When he was 30 years old his cholesterol was 280! The average heart attack occurred at a cholesterol of 220. Both his parents underwent open heart surgery in their 70's, and so he was definitely predisposed to heart disease. By the age of 40 he had changed his diet/exercise and brought his cholesterol down from 280 to 130; no … [Read more...]
Watch The Urge To Eat (Or What You Should Not) – Simply Pass By, Using Mindful Meditation
Watch The Urge To Eat (Or What You Should Not) - Simply Pass By, Using Mindful Meditation It was Socrates who said that the "unexamined life is not worth living." I paraphrase that by saying if you do not examine what you are doing (and then do not do the right thing), you are not going to have a very long or healthy life to examine. The way life works is that when we do … [Read more...]
Do You Know?
Do You Know? Do you know what to do? I'll bet you do. Then why don't you do it? If you can answer that, you deserve a Nobel prize. Unfortunately, when there is the freedom to choose, then you can count on a willy-nilly pattern of behavior in human beings. Knowledge does not automatically predict and/or lead to behavior, good or bad. Some will do it right (for the right or … [Read more...]