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Purpose of Life

Students’ Spiritual Quest

by Nicolette Beard on July 6, 2009

in Purpose of Life

UCLA’s Higher Edu­ca­tion Research Insti­tute (HERI) released a study three years ago detail­ing the results of a “spir­i­tual quest” sur­vey they con­ducted. With a sam­ple size of 112,000+ stu­dents I believe these results can be extrap­o­lated to most, if not all, col­lege stu­dents. The major­ity (76%) said they were search­ing for mean­ing and pur­pose in […]

The Most Essential

by Nicolette Beard on March 24, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness,Purpose of Life

If we asked our­selves every day, “What is the most essen­tial?” we would quickly elim­i­nate the extra­ne­ous in our lives. I can define “worth­less expen­di­tures” as wasted time, cheap goods, toxic peo­ple, imbal­anced emo­tions, out­worn con­cepts, etc. Mar­keters are adept at stim­u­lat­ing desire through our emo­tions, pri­mar­ily fear. Devel­op­ing dis­cern­ment is the key to deter­min­ing true […]