The Art of Getting Everything We Need
The truth is that if we want the right things, we will find that we already have them, and that they are all we need.
By Richard Eyre

Notes from a Seeker — A Contrarian Approach to Life
You don't have to be unpleasant to be contrary.  In fact, a contrarian approach to life may expand your horizons and keep life fresh and exciting.
By Richard Eyre

Models of the World
People look at the world from different viewpoints.  They see the world in economic terms, or individual terms, or competitive terms. Latter-day Saints know there is a better worldview.
By Richard Eyre

Following the Course of History
Sometimes it's important to think beyond our own journeys and ponder the course that the society around us is taking. Where do you think our culture is headed?
By Richard Eyre

The Three Alternatives Prayer
How do you get free from the entanglements of the world and develop the qualities you need to fortify yourself from spiritual distractions?  Here is one way to do it.
By Richard Eyre

A List of Promises
A student of the scriptures realizes that what he had always thought was a long list of commands was in reality a cornucopia of spiritual blessings.
By Richard Eyre

Fulfilling Our Purpose in Life
The seeking of what our foreordinations are, and of how to fulfill them, may be the most constructive, creative, and contributory aspect of our lives.
By Richard Eyre

Poetic Reflections
Everyone says, "I'm not a poet" — but what is a poet, and why are you not one?  Poetry, in its best definition, is an effort to express something in the fewest, most well chosen words.  Poetry makes us think, both as writer and as reader.
By Richard Eyre

Future Journeys Together
Are you journeying toward autumn?  Your input is needed.
By Richard Eyre

The Arrangement of Marriage
On the day of his son's marriage, a father wonders about the blending of families and the intricacies of the extended family institution.
By Richard Eyre

Stepping Back from the Parental Role
There comes a time in the life of every parent when it's time to step back from parenting and learn to be a friend.
By Richard Eyre

Being “Repairers of the Breach”
Isaiah admonished those in our day to be "repairers of the breach" between those who have and those who have not. What are we doing to help?
By Richard Eyre

Celebrating Diversity
Isn't the greatest of all of God's created diversity manifest in His own children?  Aren't you glad we don't all look the same?  Have you fully appreciated the different kinds of beauty that exist within the human race?  Think of all the ways that hair can be different, or eyes, or skin tones.
By Richard Eyre

We are All Seekers
The very nature of mortality is seeking. We seek salvation and we seek exaltation. And one of our constant gratitudes is for a world where seeking is made so possible by so many options. We can seek in ways that were impossible to every previous generation.
By Richard Eyre

Appreciating the Confluence of Cultures
It is true that America is so varied and vast that no one will ever see it all, so there is some justification for doing all our travel within our own boundaries. But the problem is that those boundaries become mental as well as physical, and we often do not understand or empathize with the outlooks and perspectives that exist elsewhere on this planet.
By Richard Eyre

Journeying into Faith
The strait may be rocky and treacherous, but the scriptures have given us a map to cross the dangerous waters and find peace on the other side.
By Richard Eyre

Three Ingredients of Joy
Someone once said that the best part of travel is coming home.  Perhaps the two best parts of travel are the things you notice by being away from the familiar of home, and the things you notice about home when you return.
By Richard Eyre

We All Want the Same Things
It doesn't matter whether parents are Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or Latter-day Saint.  We all want the same things for our children.  There are goals and dreams that all of us share.
By Richard Eyre

Thoughts in a Nine-Day Week
Ever had a week where you gained two extra days? Richard had just such a week, and even though he wanted to hang a sign over his head that said, "Doing nothing," his mind was traveling at a thousand miles per hour.
By Richard Eyre

Jogging on the Great Wall
A quarter century ago, Richard visited China and thought it was a country that could truly see mass conversions. Although almost everything else in China has changed in the past 25 years, that observation is one of the constants.
By Richard Eyre

Progressions and Obsessions
Humans progress from grace to grace or from gift to gift. But there also negative progressions, slippery slopes where our slide gets faster and faster and harder and harder to stop, downward spirals where we lose control and plummet toward darkness.
By Richard Eyre

Journey/Autumn/Notes/Seeker
Join Richard Eyre as he spins a fabric that is woven of travel and philosophy. This week, learn what President Gordon B. Hinckley told him when Richard mourned the low number of baptisms in his mission.
By Richard Eyre

Journey into Autumn
Notes from a Seeker
As many of us move from one season of life to another, we put aside old priorities and old ways of thinking, and grow into a new way of envisioning things. Join Richard Eyre as he takes his first bold steps into autumn.
By Richard Eyre