Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'