Have you ever stopped to evaluate the quality of your life? Today you can move toward the next level of enjoying your highest level of living. Life is more than existing. We merely exist when we live our lives without definition and divine purpose. To live life with definite purpose is to live life at its best, with the faith and the great expectations that bring us to our destiny of all we were meant to be and all we were predestined to experience.

These memoirs depict the triumphs of an African-American preacher's son in the segregated South who succeeds as a social activist, educator, founding pastor, and bishop. It tells remarkable stories of the "Old Folks" and the renowned social activists, educators, and religious leaders who in some way have touched the destiny of the whole human race. We shall never forget their legacy or their endless contributions of labor and love. We shall forever treasure their memory and dare not ever forget the urgency of their silent voices echoing to us "Carry on ... carry on ... carry on."

From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer-and the reason we make other people suffer-is that we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: We can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness. In this "sublime" (The New Yorker), pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life-how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people. He also shows why this transformation works, drawing on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an acute understanding of human evolution. This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world's most skilled meditators. The result is a story that is "provocative, informative and...deeply rewarding" (The New York Times Book Review), and as entertaining as it is illuminating. Written with the wit, clarity, and grace for which Wright is famous, Why Buddhism Is True lays the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age and shows how, in a time of technological distraction and social division, we can save ourselves from ourselves, both as individuals and as a species.

What if?...

For all those times we've been told things like: "We'll never amount to anything" and "Oour efforts are never enough," that we simply release these "supposed inadequacies" to the LORD -and, like some truly shining examples learn how to totally S.P.A.R.K.L.E. instead?

And, what if...

the thought really works?