If everyone in a class becomes prosperous—and no one outside a class does—then, and only then, can we logically conclude that the class was the cause of the students’ prosperity.
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Love as real as an avatar
It was no mistake that Jake had been sent to Pandora instead of his twin brother. Neither he nor Neytiri was aware that the eternal soul within Jake’s manufactured avatar and physical body had a destiny.
What to Do When Someone “Does You Wrong”
Is it the season, the recession, the stars, or something in the water? The number of “Somebody did me wrong” stories I’ve heard from colleagues, friends, even strangers in line at the supermarket is multiplying like the fabled fish and loaves. There is an abundance of emotional immaturity wafting through the ether. Folks are dehumanizing …
What to Do When Someone “Does You Wrong”
The next time someone does you wrong, think before you react. Remember the Law of Attraction/Reciprocity: Whatever you do will be done to you. You will attract souls who mirror your beliefs and behaviors. They will treat people the way you treat people.
Why We Consistently Create Disappointment
Last week we discussed the phenomenon that prompted millions of us to buy into the claim that the Law of Attraction was a “secret.” After spending our hard-earned money, we discovered that we’d known the “secret” since childhood: You reap what you sow. The Law of Attraction/Reciprocity has now been reincarnated, reinterpreted, repackaged and monetized …
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Why We Consistently Create Disappointment
How does the Law of Attraction work in its 21st Century incarnation, exactly? Does it enable us to attract our every desire 100% of the time? Shouldn’t it, if it’s called a law? What if we all want to have lots of money without working? Can we leverage the Law for that? Shouldn’t we be able to?
Who’s gonna nab the real burglar in Cambridge?
The furor over the arrest of renowned Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been painful to watch, even from the balcony of Life’s dramas: Scenes littered with suspicion, mistrust and accusations of racial profiling morphed into outrage, defensiveness, retaliation and, alas, some unfortunate mug shots. None of it—not the incident, the race-based commentary …
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Who’s gonna nab the real burglar in Cambridge?
Millions are waiting for the Anti-Christ to arrive, but it’s been here all along. It sits where we sit, stands where we stand, walks where we walk. And all too often, it speaks when we speak. It prods us to do and say things to others that we would not want done or said to us. It picks fights, fuels dissension, and causes us to choose angry force over peaceful power. It justifies righteous indignation over effective conflict resolution. It’s like a magnet, spinning our moral compass out of control.
Puttin’ a hurtin’ on ourselves
Our egos can only take us where we agree to go. Our egos don’t want us to remember one vitally important fact: At the end of the day, we will not be accountable for what others did to us–only what we did to them. And so we agree to forget.