I Am Alive with Beauty

“Walk in beauty,” is sage advice I learned from Native elders. Since my youth I have strived to walk the beauty way, but it took me until middle age to understand my path to beauty. The secret? Being engaged in a purpose – a higher calling – that makes me feel truly alive. John Dewey led me toward my calling when he said “I believe education is the fundamental method of social progress and…

What Makes Me Feel Alive

Life is good and beautiful in itself once you get the reason for your living. Many today are just living but have not yet discover their reason for their existence. But I believe that every human being on earth has an assignment to fulfill to make this world a better place and we all owe a debt to it.The late Dr Myles Munroe, one of the best motivational speaker said "The greatest Tragedy in life…

Tell Me No Lies

For most of my life I believed that what made me feel alive was the experience I was having, my past and its memories, my hopes and dreams for the future. Very quickly I discovered that being alive involved pain, sadness, sorrow and loss. I became acutely aware of cruelty, competition, comparison, criticism and of course the complete denial of death and dying. I have been inspired, seen and…

What makes me feel truly alive?

What makes me feel truly alive? Living; living fully, loudly, passionately, with no limits, no filters, and no somebody else’s rules.. I used to have a very few areas, in which I was able to express myself fully. I was an introverted and lonely child, but I could dance! That’s was my life, my salvation, my feeling of “being truly alive”. It started changing with age. I still loved dancing, but…

The Economy of Work and Humane Development

When you listen to financial gurus,politicians and economists of today, it is as if they are reading from those script written 400 yrs ago by Hobbies, Locke and Adams Smith. It stand to question whether the field of economics and politics have developed at all.Apart from democracy nothing much has changed, while the field of economy remains stagnant, what ever has happen in that field are just…

What makes you feel truly alive

Life is good and beautiful in itself once you get the reason for for your living. Many today are just living but not yet discover their true reason for living and I personally believe that every human being on earth has an assignment to fulfill to make this world a better place and we all owe a debt to it. One of the best motivational speaker of our time is the late Dr Myles Munroe who used to…

Living Human Living Earth — A Global Super-ordinate Goal for the 21st Century

How do we collectively transform ourselves, our communities, and our civilization to move toward a future of our highest collective possibilities? That question is on the minds of many Kosmos readers. There are more and more people around the world who are experiencing the divides and disconnects described by dozens of thought leaders that use such memes as “a momentous leap,” “moving from ego…

I Feel, Therefore I Am

True intelligence is the capacity of the mind to honor the wisdom of the heart. Pat Rodegast René Descartes’ leading maxim of the Enlightenment period, "I think, therefore I am – Cogito, ergo sum," has disenchanted the condicio humana and reduced the nature of the human species to its intellect and reason. Today's gone paranoid, egg-headed and heartless world is a product of this maxim…

Fully Alive Through Connection

I used to think the feeling of being fully alive only came in exceptional moments: A near-death experience, a triumphant achievement, an orgasm, a time of great loss, an instance of inexplicable synchronicity, a moment in love, being in the ‘zone’ or on the edge of some great something towards which you know you must move... Or that one time, when the thunderstorm and the sunset intermingled in…

Aliveness Revealing Itself

I remember holding the glass of water with reverence and anticipation, as I prepared to take my first sip of water in over two weeks. I held the glass to my lips and took a small tentative sip in order to savor the experience. The water felt cool and soothing to both body and mind. I held the sip in my mouth briefly and then enjoyed the refreshing feeling as the water slowly trickled down my…