What does one of the most prolific movie directors of our time think about life? In a career as a director and actor spanning decades, Woody Allen has had his share of success and controversy. In a recent interview about his latest film "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," Allen was asked his views on life: “I have a very grim, pessimistic...

Do you often think about getting old? A friend and I were talking recently about our respective elderly relatives. I was talking about how mentally sharp my grandmother still is at age 90, while while my friend related how his elderly grandmother now suffers from Alzheimer's disease and often cannot recognize her own family members. After a pause,...

Online, authors can rarely predict what kind of feedback they will receive on their writing. One of the articles on our site, "Help! My Husband Doesn’t Want Sex!", has quite unexpectedly received well over 200 comments so far! Another very popular article (that has somewhat taken us by surprise) is "What is true love?" on our student's site,...

How do we understand our world? When we experience things, do we base our understanding on ourselves? If our meaning in life is based on our emotions, this meaning will always change. If our life is going well, life will seem great. If it's not, it'll seem terrible. This is why finding real meaning in life requires more than just me. It has to...

Everyone has "cravings" ... desires and needs that must be fulfilled. We can try to ignore them, deny them by calling them illusions, or fill them with meaningless things, but ultimately that won't satisfy us. Maybe these cravings, which can't be satisfied adequately by any of the things in this world, aren't there by accident. Maybe they are...