There is a mantra I love that can help enormously with this process we call Life, a mantra that really should be a Core Principle for Living. Here it is.

Here’s a holiday pop quiz: Do you remember what you received for Christmas last year? Do you remember what you gave? Me either.

Everything is meaningful. Important things are being offered all the time — if we but pay attention. 

The faster our technological speed, the more out of touch we become with these intangible essentials and the more impoverished we are as people and as a culture.

Our lives are being diverted and led away from what is most urgent and important, which is a meaningful relationship with living, breathing, animated life.