I am very fond of reading commencement speeches at universities. One of the most impactful commencement speeches that I read was by David Foster Wallace. In his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, he told a story, There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the […]
We have described the LLP mindset, a mantra for living a fulfilled life through the pursuit of our three deepest longings: love, learning and play. In this article, we focus the lens on racism and how we can overcome it through continuing to deeply engage in LLP. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd’s death threw
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Happiness. Fulfillment. Plenitude. We humans are always longing for the state of consciousness we label with our favorite placeholder phrase to denote ‘life satisfaction’. At UEF, our favorite is flourishing. Related to the word “flowering”, flourishing is about blossoming into who we are at our state of fullest potential. A flower blooms to its full
BY ADAM RUDOLPH Speaking over lunch recently, my friend Akhil Gupta spoke to me about his work as director and founder of Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing. We always exchange ideas and share books we read about spiritual and philosophical ideas. He shared with me that he stumbled on a simple but powerful insight that our deepest yearnings are only
