Happy Without. Happy Within.

A young man finished college with a degree in psychology. Shortly after his graduation, the new psychologist was asked to deliver a speech to a group of senior citizens. For forty-five minutes he lectured the seniors on the subject of “How To Find Meaning in Retirement.” When the speech was over, an eighty-year-old woman waited until everyone was gone except the young speaker. She told him that he had delivered the speech with great power and conviction. “Your message was beautifully written. I admire you very much,” she said, “but I must tell you one thing that you’ll come to understand as you get older: You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The great liberator, Mohandis K. Gandhi, was known to evolve in his thinking about the important topics of the day. One of his close associates once asked him how he could freely and publicly seem to contradict this week something he was talking about just the week before. Gandhi replied, “Because this week…