Give up the search for wealth, It is demeaning.   This part of the First Rule is a new one on me. I am used to reading about how money is the root of all evil, that money is a false God, and I have listened to Luis preach about how wealth and money by…

Read More

Abandon attempts to achieve security, They are futile.   This part of the First Rule goes against the grain of all modern thought. Don’t we see on the bookshelves hundreds of books on how we can be successful, retire rich, and live the life or our dreams. We could attend a seminar a week on…

Read More

Live this life And do whatever is done In a spirit of loving kindness   The first part of the First Rule seems so easy. I watched my daughter engage with her three daughters last night and it was an example of doing everything with a spirit of loving kindness. If we want to be…

Read More

I have just finished a nine part series of Letters to Tom about the meaning of life when I read the following words in the introduction to the First Rule: “ These words are addressed to anyone who is willing to renounce the delusion that the meaning of life can be learned;”   Talk about…

Read More

It is Monday. The day all diets begin, good intentions start, and resolutions to change our life initiate. It is also usually the day that all those good intentions quickly die after that first moment of stress. So I thought it appropriate that the title of The Revised Version of John McQuiston’s book on The…

Read More