Finding Your Oasis. A Little Bit About a Lot: Ike Gai to Stoicism Part 4

Intrinsic rewards are sustainable. External rewards are not. Your boss gives you a ten percent raise. For a short time, you work harder, appreciative of her gesture. Soon, other conditions and contributors override the money, and you start to experience dissatisfaction. You apply for and get a job that uses your skills, while capturing your

Finding Your Oasis: A Little Bit About a Lot: Ike Gai to Stoicism Part 3

This connects to simple living and Buddhism. However, the concept of simple living is not exclusive to Buddhism, which stresses that we should live in harmony with nature. Ike Gai, while focused on identifying and living a life that revolves around our primary purpose, also inherently simplifies how we live. We do not live randomly.

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Finding Your Oasis. A Little Bit About a Lot: Ike Gai to Stoicism

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau: You may be at this point in your evolution because you are lost, wandering a highway without direction. Many people, as they approach old age, begin to panic, feeling that they will die without having achieved

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Introduction to Wild Plants of the Pacific Northwest

“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.” – Mourning Dove Two decades ago, wild foraging was the exclusive realm of upscale boutique restaurant suppliers, traditional overseas cuisine and nearly 1.8 billion people—mostly low income–who live close to

Even the Rich Can Lead a Simple Life

Simple living and meagre lifestyles are not synonymous. Neither are living a rich life and being rich financially. Simple living is merely a matter of definitive focus and choosing what you find to be valuable. It is a process of decluttering the unimportant from the significant. A year or so ago, I contracted to ghostwrite

Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life

Often, people look at major changes to their lives and balk at the perceived challenge of change. Many see simple living the same way they see the New Year’s commitment to a diet regimen. It is this perspective that imposes artificial barriers. Seeing simplicity as an opportunity, rather than a challenge, changes the approach from

Guilty Pleasures and Simple Living

Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s infamous manager, claimed that the key to a successful snow job was to find the mark’s guilty pleasure. With Elvis, it was the feelings and emotions that the young girls were feeling as they watched Elvis gyrate. They were having thoughts that they were not sure that they should have.