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July 13, 2025 · Sunday

The quote

“The strawberry, the blue solar water, the dewdrop — these are tools the Unihipili likes. They are not the practice. The practice is the willingness to clean.”

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len · Hoʻoponopono

The concept

Relationships

The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.

The longest study of human happiness ever conducted, the Harvard Adult Development Study, started in 1938 and still running, has one finding so clear it is almost embarrassing: the people who are happiest, healthiest, and live longest are t…

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A practice for today

When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Relationships. The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.

From the Bhagavad Gita

Verse 3.5

न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्। कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिगुणैः॥

“No one can remain even for a moment without performing action. Everyone is helplessly driven to act by the qualities born of nature.”

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