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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama...

Happiness. We all strive for it. What will make us happy? I know speaking for myself I can come up with quite a few things with money being at the top of the list. Sometimes what causes us to be depressed is trying to achieve a goal when the odds seem to be stacked against us.

Dr Howard C. Cutler is the co-author of ‘The Art of Happiness-A Handbook For Living.’ This book is by Dr Cutler and His Holiness th… Continue

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." Pearl Strachan Hurd

Words are easy to articulate but have you ever given any thought as to what can result from your words? We use a lot of them every day and usually not a great deal of deliberation precedes them.

The Buddha said, “Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”

Positive words can heal when negative ones can literally kill. Insensitive, unkind wor… Continue

What does our life consist of? Is our existence pre-planned and are we to follow a psychic map in which events and experiences are governed by coincidences therefore creating our destiny? Some believe our lives are predetermined which poses an interesting question, what would be the point of living if everything was already preset? Learning anything and working hard in order to achieve would be a waste of time. We may as well sit on the couch and wait for life to happen around us. I wonder what… Continue

“For every event that occurs there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.” (The Law of Karma).

What is Karma? It has been claimed that one explanation for unfortunate crisis or doses of good fortune in our existence are Karma which is due to us. The word "Karma" comes from an old Sanskrit word for "action". It is the law of cause and effect. For every action there… Continue

I have spent a great deal of my life searching for happiness. I have primarily looked for it in romantic relationships, which only concluded in divorce, certainly not in money or possessions, because fortunately I am not particularly materialistic and I struggled for years to change my wonderfully dysfunctional family until one day I stopped and watched my child at play. It occurred to me that we are reborn every single day and we are given a chance to start over and be a better person. This awa… Continue