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Man’s Purpose in Life

What is Your Mindset?

by Nicolette Beard on December 2, 2009

in Esoteric Astrology

To have mean­ing in life must one feel a pur­pose; to achieve pur­pose in life, one must have goals. You can reverse this for­mula and state, “I must have a goal to achieve my pur­pose. With pur­pose, my life has mean­ing.” So in order for your life to have mean­ing, you must estab­lish a goal. But […]

Students’ Spiritual Quest

by Nicolette Beard on July 6, 2009

in Spirituality

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

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 […]

Illuminating Mankind

by Nicolette Beard on February 12, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness

Just because I do not paint, dance, sculpt, does not mean I lack cre­ativ­ity. Find­ing how to bring light to the world is the most cre­ative action. Dur­ing my adver­tis­ing career, I felt that I was hid­ing my light under a bushel, as the say­ing goes. Inter­est­ingly, it was my hair­dresser who set me straight. […]