The surprising truth about happiness
There are over 7,000 books on the topic (source: Amazon), and every day the media serves up another set of tips, hacks, and “scientific breakthroughs” promising to make us happier. Recently I found myself wondering: Why are we so endlessly fascinated with happiness? And it struck me that it often comes back to one innocent […]
Why I stopped meditating
‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I remember getting curious about meditation, probably twenty years ago or maybe even longer. Reading the local newspaper one day I saw that there was going to be a local talk on Transcendental Meditation […]