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LIVE HAPPY
When I think about what truly supports a grounded and meaningful life, I often return to a few simple Buddhist principles – mindfulness, loving kindness, and compassion. These are not abstract spiritual ideals. They are practical ways of meeting the world with clarity...
UNDERSTANDING HEAVEN
When people ask me about heaven, often before we have settled into the conversation, I tell them that my...
SILENT HEALERS
There are moments in a human life when the boundaries between the physical and the unseen thins, and something...
LIFE STRUGGLES
When I think of the people closest to me – the ones I care the most about – I find myself wanting to gather them all...
LEARNING the HARD WAY
There are times when we lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking about how we failed to learn from parts of...
SKEPTICISM and HOPE
“Skepticism” has followed me throughout most of my writing career. It has not been an enemy, but a shadow that insists...
REMEMBERING the MIDWESTERN COLLEGE EXPERIMENT
Sixty years is a long time to stay silent about something that shaped all of us so deeply. Most of us look back, never...
LIFE EVOLVES WITH PURPOSE
I am often asked if life is a fixed point on a map of existence. No, it is not. “Life evolves with purpose.” Purpose...
BALANCE and HARMONY
We often hear that life is about finding "balance," when we continuously juggle work and rest, ambition and...
THE AHA! MOMENT
AHA: “The sudden, electric clarity that slices through confusion like lightning through a darken sky.” (unknown)...
About Bud Megargee
Bud Megargee is a former senior behavioral healthcare executive; a Washington, DC., healthcare lobbyist; and an independently published, best-selling and award-winning author. He began writing after exploring Eastern philosophy and alternative medicine techniques in the professional treatment of emotional challenges at a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery.