If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? – Mitsugi Saotome

So, is there anything more important than Love?

The answer to this question varies from person to person, from culture to culture, from era to era… It has been debated countless times, many books have been written on it and numerous intellectual wars have been fought because of it’s ideas.

The answer to this question is a simple one. It’s a basic question after all. Supporting the answer takes lots of words, but I won’t go into that here.

The political history of the 20th century can be written as the biographies of six men: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The first four were totalitarians who made or used revolutions to create monstrous dictatorships. Roosevelt and Churchill differed from them in being democrats. And Churchill differed from Roosevelt — while both were war leaders, Churchill was uniquely stirred by the challenge of war and found his fulfillment in leading the democracies to victory.

Winston Churchill was the son of conservative politician Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife, Jennie Jerome, and a direct descendant from the first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). Lady Randolph’s second son, Jack, was born in 1880, and rumors circulated that he had a different father from Winston Churchill. “George Moore, the Anglo-Irish novelist, said she had 200 lovers, but apart from anything else the number is suspiciously round,” Roy Jenkins wrote in his biography on Churchill. “I loved her dearly — but at a distance,” Churchill later said of his mother in MY EARLY LIFE (1930). In school Churchill was at the bottom of his class. Nothing showed that he would became “the largest human being of our time” (Isaiah Berlin). Physically he was not a big man – at 5-foot-8 he was shorter than Harry Truman. Churchill attended Harrow and Sandhurst, from which he graduated twentieth in a class of 130. Shortly after his father’s death in 1895, he was commissioned in the Fourth Hussars. He soon obtained a leave, and worked during the Cuban war as a reporter for the London Daily Graphic.

“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.” (from The Malakand Field Force)

“Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.” – Conan O’Brien

In a recent discussion with Zorka Hereford from EssentialLifeSkills on the subject of good looks vs. self-confidence, we reached a point where the issue of the genetic nature of good looks came up.

It seems that a lot of people (still) believe that genes control our biology. You know: I look good because I have good genes, that man over there looks fat because he has bad genes, etc. So I don’t have any reason to be more self-confident because I look good, as that is a result of inherited traits and I had nothing to do with that…

Wrong! We *do* have control over our genes. I’m not a scientist so I can’t explain this too well, but Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, cell biologist, can.

by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D | Text Source: SpiritCrossing.org

Living organisms, from cells to human beings, survive through the integrated activities of numerous physiologic systems that provide such functions as respiration, digestion, cardiovascular circulation, excretion, awareness and immune protection. To understand how each system “works,” conventional biomedical sciences disassemble organisms to study their molecular components. Through this process of reductionism, science created the ‘medical model,’ a belief that life is derived from a biochemical machine controlled by genes.

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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

Many people are so concerned with adding days to their life that they forget to add life to their days. Have you ever found yourself at home thinking about what you need to do at work, or at work thinking about things happening in your personal life? You know how distracting that is.

They say the solution for that is living in the moment; not thinking about anything else but the NOW moment in time. Just like a turntable only plays that which is under its needle and doesn’t bother with what will follow.

The past is history.
The future is a mystery.
The only time we really have is now – just this moment.