The day before U.S. Thanksgiving, we posted a video by a colleague of ours, about gratitude vs. appreciation, that got some polar opposite commentary. Some of the blog comments we didn’t approve, and other statements (written in ALL CAPS with lots of exclamation points!!!) went to our ticket desk, because the people replied to our […]

Filed under: Critical-Thinking

♦  ♦  ♦ As always, we’re here to help you “think” — to even cajole you, if needed, to really get you to KNOW how certain time-worn practices or approaches DO or DON’T add value (results) to your life. Certainly, tomorrow (at least for our readers in the U.S.) is the day that we’re accustomed […]

Filed under: Gratitude

♦  ♦  ♦ A long, long time ago, I remember hearing a spiritual teacher, Vernon Howard, tell this story. He was talking about how a man and a woman met one night at a party. They introduced themselves, each supplying their reasons for attending the party. The man smiled and asked her, “Are you looking […]

Filed under: Relationships / Love

The guest article below couldn’t be a more excellent lead-in to what we having coming your way this Thursday (November 19th): another LWL Investigative Report, this time not about the foolery that goes on behind the scenes in the ‘self-help’ arena, but about RELATIONSHIPS. That’s right… as the masses take certain aspects of relationship-based personal development […]

Filed under: Living-Dying

♦  ♦  ♦ A friend of ours told us how when he was first coming out of the depths of  ‘self-help’ over-consumption, over 20 years ago, he came across a wise old man. The man, who felt his plight — the almost uncontrollable desire to study and immerse himself in the secrets of the universe […]

Filed under: NEWS, Self Help Nonsense