Meeting Difficulties
Jack Kornfield writes in A Path With Heart, A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, Pick a situation of difficulty or conflict with others. Reflect on your last encounters and on the motivation from which you operated. How did this work? Now imagine you can bring the highest possible intentions to your […]
Mindfulness in Negotiation Conflict Management
Diane Musho Hamilton writes in Transforming Conflict: Learning how to negotiate conflict demands that we become more present, more fearless. We may need to relinquish the hopeful image of ourselves as remaining serene under all circumstances, like sitting buddhas carved from wood or stone… Whether the results are invigorating or devitalizing depends on how consciously […]
Being Driven
Tara Brach writes in Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing—our moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can’t hold on to anything—a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a […]
Resolving Everyday Conflict
In Work with Me!: Resolving Everyday Conflict in Your Organization, Gini Graham Scott writes: Difficult situations, which include conflicts, come up naturally and inevitably in every workplace. They happen because people have different interests, goals, priorities; because resources are limited; or because there are communication problems, power struggles, mistaken perceptions, faulty assumptions, and personality clashes. […]
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 […]