Friends, Many of us are wondering what specific things we can do to help move the world in the right direction. Here’s something we all can do to make a difference any day, or every day: Catch people doing something right. Yes, really! Surely, there are plenty of things wrong with this world on both personal and global levels. It’s so easy to criticize things that are a little bit off, or outrageously bad. …
Friends, Everybody loves free stuff. Getting free stuff is great. Giving free stuff is great too. Who doesn’t like to be Santa? Who doesn’t like to give something to someone and watch them cheer up as a result? To see the smiles on their faces, to see them get a little bit happier, even if just for a moment, because someone gave them something. Free giving is fantastic. Some people like it even more than …
Friends, In our heart of hearts there is a blueprint of what a fulfilling life is. If you really feel into it, you can find it, right there, in your heart of hearts. We all yearn for it. Especially when our daily life falls short of what the heart finds satisfying. We are not meant to live in the doldrums. We are meant to live with passion. We awaken to that fullness when we fall …
Marriage used to be an essential part of what most people envisioned as a fulfilling life. But times have changed! These days, getting married is not a given for many people, and even what it means to be married is changing. The freedoms of modern life are giving people the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, but modern culture is pretty clueless about what it really means to be fulfilled, and what it takes to …
Monogamy, Polyamory, and What It Takes to Be Fulfilled Read More »
Relationship—we all want it, we all need it, and it kicks our butt. At least, close relationship does. Relationship is so challenging that many people simply give up on relationship, or they avoid the challenge of closeness by keeping their connections casual and superficial. But whenever we sincerely embrace any relationship, even a one-night stand, it challenges us by pulling us out of ourselves, out of our comfort zone, and beyond our personal preferences and …
David Truman on YouTube: “The Amazing Truth and Purpose of Relationship” Read More »
Love is a necessity of life; it’s our real soul food. Science will never be able to measure how much love, and what kind of love, a human being requires in order to thrive and grow. But scientific methods aren’t needed. Each of us innately feels it when we don’t have the amount and kind of love in our lives we need to feel fulfilled. Even people with intimate partners, loving family members, and a …
How to Love with All Your Heart: Both Universally AND Personally Read More »
Dear Friends, When someone speaks, what do you hear… and what do you feel? There are two levels to every interaction. On the surface, we exchange pleasantries and share data with each other. But much more is actually flowing between us. Below the surface are emotional undercurrents of how each of us feels physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This deeper content is rarely mentioned, but if we tune into it, we feel what the other is …
Poets and mystics have said, “Love is the answer.” That rings true, in a lofty, abstract sort of way. But when the world is going up in flames, metaphorically and literally, an abstract answer isn’t what we need. And still, love actually is the answer, a very real, down-to-earth answer. The trouble is, we can’t see it that way until we’re willing to recognize the real problem, and until we’re willing to solve it. Hang …
It’s obvious to everyone that difficulty puts love to the test. But who suspects that pleasure also tests our love? Almost no one. And that’s why we’re blindsided when we’re tested by pleasure, and we so often flunk the felicity test. We’re not used to thinking of pleasure as a test of love. Isn’t love a wonderful source of pleasure, and a great pleasure in itself? Absolutely! There’s nothing wrong with pleasure, and it’s completely …
I still feel a twinge when I think of my high school best friend, Sharon (not her real name). After graduation life pulled us in different directions, and we lost track of each other. But we managed to find each other several years later, and we had a visit I’ll never forget. Sharon told me about her successful professional life and her marriage, which she claimed was a happy one. But later in the conversation …
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