All Is Well

In every moment, each of us has a basic decision to make about our well-being.  No matter how terrible, worrisome, or even frightening the circumstances are, the question we are called on to answer is whether we will face it with calmness, assurance, and knowing that...

Why Do We Complain?

Human beings love to complain.  Why is this?   After all, we want to be happy, but complaining generally keeps us in a bad mood. There are a half dozen reasons that we complain, and the bad news is that two-thirds of them keep us feeling badly.  Even complaining for a...

It Doesn’t Matter What You Do

Life has a lot to offer when we stay in the right frame of mind.  This is the story of how I came to understand this, and I coined the phrase: It doesn’t matter what you do. It matters how you do it. Pressures in life make us think that we have to do so many things. ...

Let the Saw Do the Work

Once, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I was in the garage attached to the house I grew up in.  I was sawing a piece of wood with a handsaw.  I learned something that day that I see as a metaphor for keeping a calm, centered mind as I work at tasks these days. I was...