The more I ponder about life, the more I come to one solid realization: The biggest curse and predicament of modern Man is forgetfulness. Like a creeping malaise, forgetfulness has seeped through all of Man’s being and doing. Individually, collectively, historically or culturally, we are spellbound to forget.

We haven’t only forgot our past but also our place in the present and our responsibility of the future. On a personal level...

As we all enjoy our unique human experience, we find ourselves burning the candle of life too quickly while trying to exist in society and keep up with the times. So much so, that we often forget the most important lessons we came here to learn – the lessons that our inner spirit is trying to teach us during our relatively short stay here on this beautiful planet

Here are 11 Things Your Soul Wants You to Learn...

We have all dealt with adversity.  Adversity in the workplace, schools, community, etc.  But the one adversity in which we fail to recognize time and time again is the great adversary in your head.  Your mind.  Your mind can be the defeatist.  Your mind can be the “negative nelly.” Your mind can ultimately set you back or deter you from moving forward.  How easy is it for you to turn off the negative noise in your head?  The chatter in your mind is...

The last night Noah Galloway’s body was whole, he was behind the wheel of a Humvee in Iraq. His night-vision goggles didn’t reveal the trip wire. “The roadside bomb was big enough to send our 10,000-pound Humvee flying through the air,” he says in his Alabama drawl. “We landed wheels down in a canal.”

Until that moment, Galloway had found his calling in the U.S. Army. He’d dropped out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham after the planes...

Kevin Massey, who is Kentucky basketball’s newest student manager, has been on a transcendent journey – a journey which has taken him from death’s door, after the discovery of a tumor on his brain stem on Feb. 7, 2010, all the way to UK’s campus, where he now finds himself an integral part of the Wildcat family.

His journey began like an unwelcome lightning bolt from the heavens, as Kevin, then a 16-year old, three-sport sophomore Indianapolis’...

Lauren Hill, the freshman basketball player suffering from a rare, incurable cancer, says her body is shutting down, but she believes God has the last say. That’s an awfully powerful and truthful approach to death.

“My body is shutting down, and there’s nothing I can do,” she said.

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Such an intricate name, almost elegant-sounding, for such a brutally simple disease.

Diffuse: To spread...