Category: Life Lessons

October, 2017   For the last 40 years I have exercised almost every day (roughly 350 days a year). I have either jogged for half an hour or spent an hour walking or using the stationery bike. I have also done stretches and lifted light weights for another half-hour or so. At about the same…

October, 2016   Life is like a lottery. There are winners and losers. But you can affect your chances of being in the winners group. This is illustrated in the story of the religious man who had devoted his life to God and to helping others. He realized that if he won the lottery he…

November, 2016   I once took a course on Buddhism with a Unitarian minister who characterized one of the central tenets of Buddhism as “Suffering is the difference between the way things are and the way you want them to be.” I had read a lot about Buddhism before, and when I heard this, the…