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How To Enjoy Your Life More Part 6: Your Deathbed Review

Monday, August 11th, 2008

As the morphine drips slowly through the tubes and the blurry, smiling faces of family, friends, and old compatriots smile lovingly upon you, there will come a moment in which it all becomes vividly, unquestionably and inescapably clear: You were in the driver’s seat all along. The choices you made determined your path, the opportunities [...]

How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 5 – Reaching Nirvana

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Nirvana’s a term that’s been flippantly tossed around, so its true meaning has muddled over time. It’s not a location. It’s not a band. It’s a state of mind. Nirvana is the Buddhist term for the quiet state of peace and pure pleasure that can only be found in one’s own private, innermost theater of [...]

How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 4 – 11 Questions To Measure Your Happiness

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Normally, my existential views would automatically lead me to say “Success is anything you want it to be. It’s up to you to give your life meaning.” And that’s still true. But since we’re all flesh-and-blood biological machine human beings who cannot rise above our own humanity (not that we’d WANT to, but still) there [...]

How To Begin To Enjoy Your Life More

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

“Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily.” – Epicurus “A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci “Somewhere between cosmic freedom and responsibility to the people you love lays the answer to life.” Earlier this afternoon, as I lay on my black satin [...]

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