Brian Weiner

What makes something right? Is it a rule of law? Is it one’s perception of what one believes God‘s rule is? Or is there something that is even more obvious? This one particular question goes all the way back to prehistoric times. Before written law, before spoken word, before societal…

It’s funny how one concept at the right moment in your life can mean everything. This morning I was perusing my material looking for what I would send out today. I really didn’t have anything in mind and I started going back through files from more than a decade ago…

If Dorothy had landed in Oz and was greeted by Miyamato Musashi, instead of the munchkins, the Wizard of Oz might have turned into a ninja story. But in the end, it is still the same lesson. Look within. As we swim upstream in the proverbial path of life, we…

Buddha and the early philosophers identified the present as the only reality. Twenty five centuries later as philosophers like the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, and others arrived it became known as the Now. As one is able to take a step back from one’s daily routine, one recognizes that of…

No one saves us but ourselves. We can rely on countless people to collaborate and enable us to achieve anything that we set our minds to. We grow up with family and friends that watch out for us on the path of life and are there for us in the…

A toxic personality can be devastating to all parties within their range. For whatever reason a personality should become toxic, it feeds upon the willingness of others to engage. The misery that is caused in the receiving party fuels a toxic personality and facilitates its continuous presence. In every one…

One of the single biggest mistakes that one can make is to live in an echo chamber of one’s own opinions and perspectives. In this tribal world of our current society, it is easy to believe that everything one hears from a specific group is de facto and everything that…