Jiddu Krishnamurti Explains Religious Tolerance
Philosopher, speaker and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti explains religious tolerance: You have your beliefs, and another has his; you hold to your particular form of religion and another to his; you are a Christian, another is a Mahomedan, and yet another a Hindu. You have these religious dissensions and distinctions, but yet you talk of brotherly […]
Celebrating Toni Morrison
American literary scholar Arnold Weinstein writes in Recovering Your Story: Toni Morrison is unquestionably the great inheritor of the giant figures of the early twentieth century—Proust, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner; she is the proof that what they wrought is still going strong. Time, consciousness, history, the inside story: All this is at the heart of […]
Discipline = Investing Success
From Warren Buffett’s 2017 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Though markets are generally rational, they occasionally do crazy things. Seizing the opportunities then offered does not require great intelligence, a degree in economics or a familiarity with Wall Street jargon such as alpha and beta. What investors then need instead is an ability to both […]
Human Life is An Extraordinary Privilege
Joanna Macy writes in her Shambhala Sun article Gratitude: Where Healing the Earth Begins: We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe—to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it—is a wonder beyond words. It is […]
thankfulness for life
Environmental activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy writes in her Shambhala Sun article Gratitude: Where Healing the Earth Begins: There is so much to be done, and the time is so short. We can proceed, of course, out of grim and angry desperation. But the tasks proceed more easily and productively with a measure of […]
Low-Pressure Networking Requests
Ben Casnocha writes about low-pressure requests for introductions: A friend asked me via email if I’d be open to introducing him to another busy friend of mine. He then wrote: If you are willing, and feel you could recommend a meeting with sincerity, then I’d be most grateful for an introduction. And if you have […]
How to Be Mindful With Your In-Laws
American psychologist Tara Brach, a prominent exponent of Buddhist meditation and author of Radical Acceptance, proposes mindfulness habits for handling in-laws in the New York Times column Meditation for Real Life column: Set the intention to be accepting, patient and appreciative with your in-laws. Know that some situations might make you emotionally reactive. When these […]
Impermanent Nature of All Our Feelings
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari writes in his international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to […]
Gadgets, Luxuries, and The Treadmill of Life
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari writes in his international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally […]
Psychological Tests to Measure Intelligence
William Stern in his introduction to The Psychological Methods of Testing Intelligence (1914): The objection is often made that the problem of intellectual diagnosis can in no way be successfully dealt with until we have exact knowledge of the general nature of intelligence itself. But this objection does not seem to me pertinent….We measure electro-motive […]