No matter how fast you travel, you’ll never reach your destination if you’re headed in the wrong direction. Throughout my roughly four decades on this planet, I’ve learned that the best way to live a meaningful life is to align your short-term actions with your long-term values; that is, to make your future self proud of your present self. Otherwise, you’ll careen from one pleasurable experience to another, which might
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Rituals have been used across cultures and spiritual traditions to help actualize intentions and goals. They are ways to create meaning and mark transitions. Rituals are interspersed into our daily secular lives in ways we may not even notice: beginning a baseball game with the national anthem, for example, or singing “happy birthday.” I trained as a Buddhist nun for many years in Japan, and my life in the monastery
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How to Take Control of Your Internal Dialogue So You Can Live a Life of Purpose
On a downtown bus, just as it is pulling in to its next stop, a woman stands up, slaps the face of the man next to her, and hurries to the exit. Each passenger who saw what happened reacts in their own way. A middle-aged man feels sad for the man who was slapped. A younger woman is frightened. A teenage boy is angry. Another woman feels excited. How could