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Tag Archives: Life
Careers and Life
Medicine makes a lot of demands on those who chose to follow its calling. For most, the personal sacrifices are an unavoidable price that has to be paid. For others, the long hours provide an acceptable excuse for avoiding some … Continue reading
Posted in America, Happiness, Health and wellness, Medicine, Poetry, Science, Thoughts & Musings
Tagged Careers, Life, Life balance
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Maps
It’s Monday again, and time for another installment in the Poetry on Monday series. Here is another piece by my favorite poet in a series about traveling through Europe. Hope you enjoy the journey. map this dot is Paris. this … Continue reading
The Four Pillars of Happiness
I’ve written of The Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest running study of happiness, ongoing since 1938, in my previous blog. The main and inescapable conclusion of this study is that the single best predictor of a person’s happiness … Continue reading
Posted in America, Family, friendship, Happiness, Health and wellness, Thoughts & Musings
Tagged Ghandi, Life, Lifestyle, Mark Twain, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, Victor Frankl
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Ready…Set…
It’s another Poetry Monday, and one more from the series called Maps by my favorite poet. Hope you are all surviving the heat. Our A/C chose a bad time to go on the fritz. departure that night train crouching … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Thoughts & Musings, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Life, Lifestyle, Philosophy
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JOY
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore My other favorite quote from this wise Bengali poet: You can’t cross the sea … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Health and wellness, Poetry, Southeast Asia, Thoughts & Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Life, Lifestyle, Philosophy
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Happiness and The Missing Tile Syndrome
“We have met the enemy, and he is us” is Pogo creator Walt Kelly’s apt 20th century parody of Perry’s famous quotation. It captures the essence of a profound and oft unrecognized truth, that we are often our own worst … Continue reading
Posted in America, Family, friendship, Happiness, Health and wellness, Mental Health, Thoughts & Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Life, Lifestyle, Philosophy
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A Departure
It’s another Poetry Monday. Hope you survived the weekend. Here are some words from Peter Ferenczi to help place you in a different mindset than the one you currently hold. a departure my final night in New York … Continue reading
Posted in America, Dating, friendship, Poetry, Thoughts & Musings, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Life, Philosophy
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Socrates on Happiness
Socrates (469 – 399 BC) claimed that his wisdom and insights arose merely in “knowing that he knew nothing.” He argued that happiness is not just bestowed on a select few, but could actually be obtained by human endeavor. In … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Health and wellness, Thoughts & Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Life, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Socrates
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The Harvard Happiness Project
The Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longest running study of happiness. Begun in 1938, the study has followed 724 men since they were sophomores at Harvard University. The researchers have collected data every 2 years, asking questions about … Continue reading
Posted in America, Happiness, Health and wellness, Marriage, Thoughts & Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Harvard, Life, Lifestyle, Philosophy
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A River, A Book, A Stone
a river, a book, a stone where I am from all but the stones and a few trees are young. but where I have been, time, human time, is deep. you can dive into it, plumb the depths … Continue reading
Posted in America, Beauty, Poetry, Thoughts & Musings, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Italy, Life, Lifestyle
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