We are often told to have big goals. That’s important, because it provides the important direction we need in life and give our life meaning and purpose. Without a big goal, it’s unlikely that one would ever amounts to much. But having a big goal does not guarantee that one would achieve it. The book [...]

Deciding what is good is a fairly tricky matter. Fifty years ago, smoking was a good thing. You were not manly if you are a guy and didn’t smoke. But today you are shunned by almost everyone if you do smoke. In Japan and some places in China, slurping is expected when you eat noodles. [...]

Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven belongs to people who are child like. It took me twenty some years to really get it. A ray of light penetrated me one day when I was reminiscing about my university days. I went to university in the early 1980s in Shanghai, China, when there was no [...]

I grew up in China in a time when moral and political education was very important. When I was old enough to think about questions of life, I was told in school that the purpose of life is to serve the people. I didn’t understand it. Nobody really understood it. Nobody believed it. My search [...]

If God is ominpresent, then where is God not? If God is pure love, and everything is created from the Spirit of God, which can only be pure love also, then how can there be evil? Obviously, something isn’t right here. If we do not question the premise that God is pure Love, then logically [...]

If I were a hero, I’d like some challenge. Peacefulness is often for mediocrities and unexciting for brave souls. It is in the face of great difficulties that our potentilal greatness get activated and expressed. We become emotionally excited and rise to the occasions, producing extraordinary feats that later amaze even ourselves. That’s why we [...]

I have been really moved by the unprecedented energy of love that still permeates the spaces since the Obama inauguration. Only a few months ago, America was deeply polarized and divided, and the world resented America. But today, the forces of love, goodwill and cooperation have gone out to the entire world and echoed back [...]

French sculptor Rodin once said, the world lacks not beauty, but the eyes that can see it. The same is true for miracles. Miracles happen every day, no less than in the first century AD. But to recognize them, one needs to open their consciousness. In that sense, the real miracle is not what happened, [...]