What is a metaphor?A metaphor compares or substitutes something abstract and less immediately present with familiar palpable imagery. Just as language is very effective at communicating information, metaphors convey new and complex information using basic and familiar concepts.All religious scriptures use metaphors to transmit ideas about God and divinity. The Hindu Upanishads are filled with […]
Meaning of Life and Flourishing 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
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
In his classic Working, Studs Terkel went around the United States in the 1970s interviewing workers from all walks of life. Over and over again he found — not surprisingly — that work is central to our lives and that we derive a significant part of our self-image from our relationship with work. I find the volume
