What is the Difference between Love and Lust?

Are you wondering what the difference is between lust and love? They both sound as if they are related, but yet at the same time they are not. You can have the feeling of lust towards your partner, but you wouldn’t have that same feeling of lust towards your parents. So what is the difference between lust and love?

If you look at the feeling of lust, it typically comes without an act of appreciation towards you. Take Brad Pitt, Jessica Alba or any other type of heartthrob and you will notice that people lust for these ...Continue reading

How Can I Get More Love In My Life?

So if the feeling of love and the act of love is just receiving and giving appreciation, then how do you maximize love or maximize the amount of appreciation in your life?
Strategies to Receive Love
Well let us look at that question in more detail by first examining how we can receive love. There are three ways to receive love. You can refuse to accept love (RAL people); Expect love to come into your life (EL people); and graciously accept love (GAL people). Based on how each of these type of strategies interact with each other will we ...Continue reading

The Ego Mind

The “Ego Mind” has been referred to as the mind that gets you in trouble, causes you to do bad things, is the cause of you being arrogant and it is responsible for your search for acceptance of others. Ecarte Tolle even alludes to the Ego Mind being the source of all conflict and if you train your Ego Mind so that it stops appearing in your life, then you will be free of conflict within your life. If all of this is the case, what is the ego mind and how does it relate to what ...Continue reading

Your Purpose in Life

Without a purpose in life, people live life aimlessly, feel blah and wonder why they are here.  However, with a purpose in life, people can begin to achieve passion and begin to see elements of happiness their life. The intention of this article is to provide you direction on what your true purpose in life is and how you can begin to figure it out. To begin to understand our purpose in life, lets first start by looking at the purpose of an object’s life, or more specifically, a pen’s life.

A pen’s life can be somewhat boring from ...Continue reading

The Best Way To Learn and Remember

There are a tons of different ways to learn new skills and new tasks. People stay up and memorize books, finish tests, write essays, take practice tests, listen to people talk and some people just learn by doing. Given all of these different ways to learn a new skill, what is the optimal way to learn so that you can learn new skills faster. To answer this question, lets look at how we think so that we can figure out if this thought process will give us some clues as to how to learn and how to ...Continue reading

How To Create Peace and Reduce Conflict

How do we create peace in a world that sometimes focuses on conflict, which is the source of pain? If conflict is the source of pain, why do we continue to cause pain and grief towards another? People want to be happy and not angry or sad, so why haven’t we stopped creating conflict and start creating peace and happiness? These are the questions that we’ll begin to ponder in this article.

To answer this question, lets think back to when you are a kid and you couldn’t speak. At that moment, every thought that comes ...Continue reading

Live a Longer and Happier Life

Can people live longer? What is the magical formula to stay young, look young, feel great, increase your longevity and slow your aging? Some say it is a magical cream or a magical pill that will solve your aging problem. In order to understand aging, you need to understand what living actually means. Is an object alive? If not, then what is the difference between an object and a living being? If we understand that difference, then we will understand what it means to live. If we understand what it means to live, then we will know what factors ...Continue reading

Love: What is it?

To begin to answer this question, lets start by observing the feeling of love toward your parents and compare that love toward a friend you barely interact with. If you don’t love your parents, then find the feeling of love with someone you do love and adjust this example accordingly.

Looking at your parents, why do you love them? You can say they created you, made you who you are today, they cared for you in times of need, they were happy with you in times of bliss and they changed their own lives to help you become who you ...Continue reading

Money: What is Money?

Think of all the amazing things you can do with billions of dollars accessible to you at any time. The dream house, the dream car, the dream vacation or the dream anything all of a sudden stops becoming a dream and turns into reality once you have money. One can also blame money for all of the hardships in one’s life and for all the hardships in the world today. So what is the very idea of money that holds such a large portion of our emotional well being? What is this thing called money, why ...Continue reading

Why do we think in our native language?

I do quite a bit of thinking on a day to day basis and I just realized that I ALWAYS think in English. I found this to be quite odd actually because I am always able to stop the words in my head half way through a thought, but I still know what that thought was. For instance, if I said to myself “I really want a peanut butter jelly sandwich” I can stop the translation of that thought at “I really want…” and still get a peanut butter jelly sandwich. So why then do I ...Continue reading