What do you crave? If you could wish for anything in the world, what do you most desire? What would you give in exchange for the satisfaction of that longing?.

Do you crave meaning?

Everyone has “cravings” … desires and needs that must be fulfilled. We can try to ignore them, deny them by calling them illusions, or fill them with meaningless things, but ultimately that won’t satisfy us.

What you focus on increases

by Jamie Smart

Whatever you focus your attention on over time will increase in your experience. What do I mean by focus? The combination of thought and emotion. Wherever you put your attention, results will follow.

A simple example of this is money:

The Art of Balance

So, what is the art of balance, at least to my eyes? 

Everything in this life is finding a balance, or at least is trying to find a balance, with itself and everything around it.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Love yourself.  Love the things that make you you.  Your values and talents and memories.  Your clothes, your nose, your woes.  If you love yourself, you can jump into your life from a springboard of self-confidence.

Think like a confident person

 The Bible quotes King Solomon: ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he be.’

The Buddhist text, The Dhammapada, states: ‘ We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.’