Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Is it not also true then that insanity would be doing different things over and over again and fearing the same result? Every path in life is different, in part because each of us is […]
Author Archives: David Carson
Are You Missing Life? An Article from the Washington Post
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician […]
Do What Makes You Come Alive
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
Video: Plug Into Your Hard-Wired Happiness
This is a great video featuring Professor Srikumar Rao. He teaches us to be grateful and wants us to meditate, but he isn’t a spiritual teacher. He teaches at some of the world’s top business schools! In his gentle voice, Professor Rao ask us to stop living in a “me centered” world and start living […]
Does Happiness = Initiative? Seth Godin seems to think so.
In Seth Godin’s book, Tribes, he states Happiness = Initiative. “Products and services…require initiative to produce. You can’t manage your way to initiative. Creating products and services that are remarkable is fun. Doing work that’s fun is engaging. So not surprisingly, making things that are successful is a great way to spend your time. There […]
Can a sock undo Inspiration?
Inspiration can be completely undone by the rigor of daily life, defeated quite easily by as little as a single thought. In her book The Invitation (inspired by the prose poem), Oriah wrote a stunningly engaging piece about spiritual enlightenment and peace. She recounts how she experienced a great state of enlightenment one morning, a […]
Is there a Gene for Happiness?
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet and attend a presentation today by David Shenk, NY Times Bestselling author, who recently published a book entitled The Genius in All of Us. In his presentation, Shenk explained various aspects and myths concerning who we are and how much is determined by genetics. He discussed […]
Functional Happiness White Paper Released
Recently Walking Into the Light released its Functional Happiness White Paper which explains how functional happiness can be applied to our daily lives. It examines how we can use the Model of Functional Happiness to live a richer, more inspired life. Below is an excerpt from the paper: There has been a great deal of […]
Welcome to Walking Into the Light
Welcome to the Walking Into the Light Blog. We explore the elements of an inspired life, including functional happiness, which lead us along our path from here to there. So I invite you to take a walk with me, through my life and ultimately your own. For it is my hope that we may meet […]