Marriage: 3-Essential Ingredients For a Successful Marriage - Incentive, a Willing Partner, & LUCK
You need more than a marriage certificate and good intentions to have a successful marriage. Commercial television programming and advertising would have you believe that finding a husband or wife is the difficult part of marriage; but, with over half of all marriages ending in divorce, it seems much easier to get married than it is to stay married. But there are things you can learn that will help you make your marriage a success.
Success: What’s Important To You?
What is success? Isn’t success simply realizing the things that are important to you? So, what’s important to you? I’m sure you could list some things, probably several things; but do you really know what’s truly important to you? Do you ever spend time asking yourself, or thinking about, what’s truly important to you? We often hear people talking about "the important things in life;" but what exactly makes something important - or more important than something else? Are things important to us because we were told that those things are important; or are the things we consider important all matters of personal choice, preference, opinion, judgments, or attachment? Is anything truly important without someone placing value on it? And does someone placing - or misplacing - value on a thing make it important?
Spirituality Simplified: Why Is It We All Tend to Act like We’re "Judge Judies?"
The tendency on the part of human beings to "judge" (i.e., label, criticize, condemn, and so on) plays a significant role in fostering separation among people. For whatever reason, our minds have what appears to be a natural inclination to pass judgment on people, places, situations, etc. While no one wants to be considered judgmental, as this description carries a very negative connotation, the fact is everyone does judge. It is essentially impossible to completely avoid making judgments, for nearly every one of our thoughts has some judgment associated with it.
Spirituality Simplified: When You Take Care of the Present the Future Takes Care of Itself
By Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified
What I am about to say may shock you, but other than those times when you are looking forward with joyful anticipation to an upcoming event, practically all of the thoughts you entertain about the future are in fact rooted in fear. In particular, the desire to know what will occur, and the urge to make detailed plans to ensure one’s own security down the road, are both related to the ego’s need for safety as a result of its deeply held fear of death. You can deny the truth in this, arguing that it is only prudent that a person plan for the future. However, if you are able to look deep within yourself, you will realize that it is indeed an accurate observation concerning human nature. To varying degrees, every single one of us is apprehensive about the future (i.e., the unknown), and so we burn amazing amounts of energy trying to get a hold on something that quite simply is impossible to grasp. According to Fr. Anthony DeMello in "Awareness":
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The Belief Formula
