Unsatisfying Things

Question: What are the most unsatisfying things in life? Answer: What is satisfaction? Satisfaction is fulfilling a need, receiving something we really want, accomplishing a goal we yearned for. Thus what is dissatisfaction? When something prevents us from reaching satisfaction. Unsatisfying things are those that obstruct our path towards reaching satisfaction. What relates to “most … More Unsatisfying Things

Useful Envy

Question: Why do people want to be other people and are not happy with themselves? Answer: We can’t help it, we are “programmed” in such a way. Our inherently self-serving, self-justifying nature constantly measures itself to others in order to prove that it is better, higher, greater, richer, etc than others. Our political, marketing systems, … More Useful Envy

Changing Destiny

Question: Is our destiny already decided for us, or is our future constantly changing as we go through different experiences in our life? Answer: It is a very important question. And the answer is a bit of a paradox need on our unique perfection of reality. On one hand our “destiny”, our Human purpose is … More Changing Destiny

Life Making Sense

Question: At what point in your life (in terms of age or maturity) did you feel like life starting making more sense? Why? Answer: To me it happened around the age of 40, when following a heartbreaking family tragedy I started asking about the meaning of suffering in life, about the general meaning of life, … More Life Making Sense

Luck Through Effort

Question: What is something said to you, either good or bad, that has in someway affected your life? Answer: There is a long list of “sayings” that have deeply affected my life, mostly by parents, grandparents or by my teachers. I remember very often what my farther has told me once, when I hoped to … More Luck Through Effort

Educated Goal Setting

Question: What determines our status in life: success, happiness or health? Answer: We need an overall purpose in life. Without such a solid, final goal we have nothing to measure success, happiness against. And in order to make those measurements precise, we need a unique, “gold standard” purpose which is not something we invent for … More Educated Goal Setting

Attitude Change

Question: If you could give me one tip to help me improve my attitude, what would it be? Answer: I would say that it is already a very good sign that you feel that your attitude needs improving. After all we can heal only when we know that we are sick. The truth is that … More Attitude Change