LIFE: Life Insights For Everyone
This website shares practical insights for living a more contented and fulfilling life — and thereby a happier life.
On the spectrum of life (lifespan), from childhood through to older age, this site leans toward or focuses more on the latter part of life. This is due to the author’s own age — now in his seventies.
The insights have been grouped under eight headings:
[1] Principles of Living
[2] Relationships
[3] Health
[4] Coronavirus
[5] Loss
[6] Memories
[7] End-of-Life
[8] Love and Service
Most of the thoughts for reflection and meditation come from Buddhist sources — however, their relevance and applicability are universal and timeless in nature.
Throughout life, we look for happiness, which is to experience well-being.
By contrast, nobody wishes to suffer, which is to experience pain.
When seen in this way, we all share the same heart — yearning to be happy and desiring to be free from suffering.
May the life insights shared on this website help to ease whatever unhappiness or suffering a visitor may be experiencing and to gently guide them to a greater measure of contentment and fulfillment — or true happiness.
Alexander Peck (February 14, 2022)
There is much to be gained from taking time each day to silently reflect on life in stillness and solitude — such as life’s preciousness, its impermanence and end, the law of cause and effect, and the suffering in the world.
One can also reflect on the profound nature of awareness or consciousness which is always with us, regardless of the ups and downs of life. ”There is a resting place, a starting place that you can always return to. You can always bring your mind back home and rest right here, right now, in present, unbiased awareness.” (From Compassion Cards: Teaching for Awakening the Heart in Everyday Life by Pema Chodron.)
Finally, to ponder the following words by Thich Nhat Hanh is most enlightening: “‘In the ultimate I dwell.’ The ultimate is the foundation of our being, the ground of being. The ultimate, or God, or the divine, is not separate from us. We are in it all the time. It is not somewhere up there beyond the sky. But we have to live in our true home in order to dwell in the ultimate, in order to live in the ultimate.” (From No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life by Thich Nhat Hanh)
(Alexander Peck)
