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Surviving Technical Support

Over the past week, I have spent more than 15 hours on the phone with technical support for Apple, Time Warner Cable and Microsoft. I've spoken to about 30 different people in the U.S., India and the Philippines, and I have lost my mind on several…

How’s Your Existential Maturity?

Existential maturity (is) a kind of peaceful acceptance of mortality and of the relationship between generations of life that mitigates the pain of our transience by allowing an understanding of how we can die without entirely ceasing to exist. --…

5 Keys to Cutting Your Mental and Emotional Umbilical Cord

Do you feel like you are 5 years old again when you visit with your family? Do you feel like everything is the same somehow? Have you maintained the same role in relationship to your family throughout your life? The shining star? The black sheep?…

How to Be an Awesome Human Being

I always thought that babies should come with operating instructions and that parents-to-be should be required to pass a parenting test. After all, a license is required to drive a car. Surely a course in the basics of taking care of a baby's…

Understanding: The Third Law of Spirit

  Anytime you allow anything or anyone outside yourself to cause you to choose hurt and to be disturbed inside yourself, then you are being shown how you can strengthen your understanding of the first and second laws of Spirit, to accept…

Love: The Fourth Law of Spirit

"God is love. This means that even the greatest source of negativity is love. Ultimately, you must come face-to-face with that and recognize that whatever negativity presents itself is still of the true nature of God, which is love." -- John…

No Plans for the Holidays? How To Enjoy Them Anyway

It's very easy to fall into a "poor me, nobody loves me, I'm going to go eat worms" state of mind when you don't have any invitations for the holidays. Alternatively, you could choose to enjoy your holidays anyway. It's all in how you see it…

Do You Need to Lighten Up Your Life?

Choose to take the Light road, the Light option, to relate to whatever is going on in a Light way so you can enjoy yourself and have fun while you go through it. You can laugh or you can cry. You can enjoy yourself or you can suffer. Happiness…

The Importance of Awakening Your Inner Spiritual Authority

I was raised Catholic by a Catholic mother and a Lutheran father and lived in a community where I had a lot of Jewish friends. That was my world view as far as religion was concerned: Catholic, Protestant and Jewish until my mother gave me a…

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