Website owner: James Miller
Toward what ought I focus my mind and attention? What is worthy of my efforts and energies? What area of inquiry? Mathematics? Science? Politics? Economics? I look around me and see unhappy marriages everywhere. Almost every marriage you become familiar with is either breaking up or at least very unhappy. All this means unhappiness --- personal unhappiness. People are unhappy and confused --- parents, children, everyone. People just don't know how to play the game of life. To me this is the big problem of life. The problem of being happy. Mental health and happiness. And it is to this problem that I would direct my attention. It is immeasurably more important than mathematics, science, politics or any other such subject. And what is the key to personal and family happiness? I think the answer lies in the proper attitudes, values, and outlooks on life. And what are the proper attitudes, values and outlooks on life? I believe they are exactly those that God has commanded us to live by. We find them in the Bible and in our own heart and conscience. We just need to take them seriously and obey. Oct 1977
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