By Gregg Sanderson What makes you think you need needs? We get a lot of support for the idea that life and happiness are all about satisfying needs. I brazenly proclaim, “NOT SO!” As you move from everyday stress to…
2 Little Words (That Can Change Your Life)
By Gregg Sanderson Don’t pursue happiness, create it. In early columns, we introduced the new paradigm for happiness. Instead of Stimulus —> Response, where you’re at the mercy of circumstances, we have: Stimulus —> NEED —> Response …where you are…
The Science of Happiness (It’s more than an art; it’s a science.)
By Gregg Sanderson “There is no path to happiness: Happiness IS the path.”— Gautama Buddha Peace, love, and happiness are yours for the taking, along with a long, healthy life. Stress kills, suffering is no fun, and misery sucks. It…
What Rings Your Bell? Lessons from Quasimodo
By Gregg Sanderson “The ways and means are available to me…The only question to be asked then is: ‘How much discomfort am I willing to sit with before I invite the answer to be revealed?’” —Dale Jukes What single factor…
The “Scientific Way” to Find Your Spiritual Path
By Gregg Sanderson Science can’t prove (or disprove) a Spiritual teaching. Science is but one facet of the Spiritual Universe, and confined to the space/time continuum. By definition, it can’t consider dimensions that don’t exist on this plane, so we…
All You Love is Need: The Complete Guide to Screwing Up a Relationship
By Gregg Sanderson Are your love relationships working? If so, you’re missing out on the joys of conflict, breakup, and misery, Poor soul, is there any hope for you? Sure there is. When you’re needy, the one thing you don’t…
I’ll Love You Unconditionally, as Soon as You Shape Up!
By Gregg Sanderson “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”—Thomas Jefferson Jerry died last month. We had been friends since the 1960s. He was at my birthday…
The Magic Sign
By Gregg Sanderson I know sometimes in our experience, the messages aren’t immediately clear, but 35 years? One summer in 19 Seventy-Something, Marla and I hitchhiked from Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Telluride, Colorado. Usually we’d make a sign to…
Don’t Forget the Love
By Gregg Sanderson Nothing interferes with Love so much as the need to be right and to seek agreement, but as Spiritual beings having a human experience, we’re susceptible to it. As students of Spiritual matters, we know enough to…
Pressure Wash Your Mind
By Gregg Sanderson As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.—Henry David Thoreau You’ve often heard “thoughts become things” or variations on the theme.…