Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Patricia Broersma
Margaret Mead is famous for noting, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." In many communities there are numerous groups for individuals to support one another's efforts to make changes in their lives and in the world.
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- Written by: Erik Curren, Transition Voice
I need to remind myself not to waste time. Not to click on too many hyperlinks and certainly not to spend to much time on Facebook. Not to distract myself with too much retail therapy at the antique mall or on Amazon. Not to obsess over whether my...
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
I was listening to a news reporter in Texas listing all of the destruction, and then he started talking about all of the volunteers who have showed up to help, and he started to cry. Through tears, he said that he has never seen humanity show up in such beautiful ways to be of service and help others in need.
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- Written by: Stephanie Van Hook, Waging Nonviolence
Anger, rage and a desire for revenge are all reasonable and justified in the face of armed attacks, abuse and exploitation. What matters is what we do with these things.
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- Written by: Gay David Campbell, Binghamton University
There’s no shortage of media reports listing which groups are taking donations, often with scant guidance about what kinds of relief these organizations can offer.
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- Written by: Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
The primary ongoing question of your life is: are you going to choose same-old, same-old, or are you going to explore new possibilities? In other words, are you going to live in the conditioned but comfortable cocoon of your ego, or are you going to...
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- Written by: Nora Caron
When I was ten years old and attending an elementary school called Mountainview School, my mother decided to have a little chat with my school director about the lack of trees on the school property. She argued that although the view of the mountain was lovely, the boring grassy lawn was not.
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- Written by: Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan
All Americans are lucky to live in a country brimming with public resources that everyone can share.
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- Written by: Colin Beavan, YES! Magazine
While we work to change the government, we can’t forget that we can also make big change ourselves by starting small and local.
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- Written by: George Lakey, YES! Magazine
Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over. The key to avoiding fascism? An organized left with a strong vision and broad support.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
After intense political activism, an attack from the Trump administration on public lands has been shot down. The fight is far from over, but with the unexpected fightback of hunting and fishing groups, attempts to privatize federal land will meet new opposition.
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
When 500 refugees arrived in their community, residents of Zaandam were wary. But by the time the newcomers could apply for residency status in Europe, neighbors didn’t want them to leave.
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- Written by: Timothy Snyder, YES! Magazine
Have your passports ready, watch your language, and other advice from a Yale history professor.
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- Written by: Ervin Laszlo
Einstein told us that we cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking at which we were when we created the problems. He was right. Yet we are trying to do just that. We are fighting terrorism, poverty, criminality, cultural...
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- Written by: Claudia Horwitz, OpenDemocracy.net
Since coming out as queer at 45, I've been coming to understand what that means. “Queer” is a reclaimed word that aims to reject oppressive cultural formations of sex and gender identity. But to me it also means a new perspective on radical love.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Far from the corrosive political circus unfolding in Washington, DC, local citizen groups are improving conditions for the people in their own backyards.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
With help from activist manual written by former congressional staffers, Republicans face angry crowds in home states
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- Written by: Cat Johnson, Shareable
Community groups have the power to create long-lasting change. Ioby, an organization based in New York City, New York, that works on neighborhood mobilization, recently published its "Recipes for Change" toolkit.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.”
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- Written by: Hannah Norman, YES! Magazine
The Women’s March on Washington illustrated what a wide variety of issues women will have in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
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- Written by: Sarah Love McCoy
How do we listen and learn from each other, with our very different experiences and beliefs about life, yet find a way through it to a place of love and healing?
