Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
'Nobody goes to jail. ' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.