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There is a day coming soon — perhaps a hundred years, perhaps two hundred years, but no more than that — where the evil of religious fundamentalism will no longer exist.
Now, one or two hundred years may seem like a long time, but when compared to the thousands of years that religious fundamentalism has existed, […]

In just a few short weeks, Californians will head to the polls to decide, among other things, the fate of their months-old experiment with same-sex marriage.  A voter-initiated proposition (”Proposition 8“) aims to re-write the state’s Constitution to take away the right of any individual of any sexual orientation to get married. Opinion polls show […]

Happiness comes from within.  It is a perspective that is carried in the mind at every waking moment.  You will not find any lasting happiness in the outside world that is separate from your own inner perceptions.  This is because the outside world only reflects your internal point of view, your internal perspective.
If you are […]

When you quiet your mind, and start to look at life with fresh eyes, one of the first things you will notice is the amount of struggle on this Earth.  If you have traveled and seen poverty and hopelessness as it exists in so many places on this planet, you will know that the struggle […]

The mind is a thing of such beauty. If you treat it well, and fill it with love, then you will encounter love and beauty wherever you go in this world. If, on the other hand, you clutter it with worry and anxiety, then you create for yourself only suffering.
We have so much […]

All too often, wisdom is found in the most curious of places.

We have forgotten how powerful one person has become over the course of seven years.
Today, the President of the United States is the most powerful person in the history of civilization. More powerful than Caesar, the Tzar, or the Fuehrer.
In the course of seven years, the President has assumed the following powers:

He has assumed […]

When you engage in thinking, no matter how mundane or profound, you must remember that you are engaging in a profound act of creation.
When a human mind thinks, it is doing more than simply transferring electrical impulses through biochemicals across synaptic channels. Perhaps this is the biological explanation, but it is at most a […]

Freedom is more than a political goal. It is a psychological state, as well as a spiritual quest.
When we are born, we arrive into a world where there is little freedom. It is true that the laws of many countries guarantee freedom. But it is also true that such laws are given […]

Depending on who you ask, anywhere from one quarter to one half of Americans — anywhere from 75 to 150 million people — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder.
If we are to believe these statistics, there are literally tens of millions of people today, or even hundreds of millions of people, who have trouble finding […]