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Pema Chödrön 2

2010-04-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Pema Chödrön - Awakening Loving-Kindness

Atul Gawande

2010-03-30T12:14:00.000-07:00

The account of perception that's starting to emerge is what we might call the "brain's best guess" theory: perception is the brain's best guess about what is happening in the outside world.

Atul Gawande - "The Itch", The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

Aldo Leopold

2010-03-26T08:49:00.001-07:00

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

Michael Faraday

2010-03-22T12:30:00.001-07:00

Nothing in this world is too wonderful to be true.

Michael Faraday, quoted by Edward O. Wilson in The Future of Life

Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn

2010-03-10T16:35:00.000-08:00

Unhappiness itself is not the problem - it is an inherent and unavoidable part of being alive. Rather, it's the harshly negative views of ourselves that can be switched on by unhappy moods that entangle us.

Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn - The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness

Hilary Mantel

2010-03-04T18:24:00.000-08:00

"Were you ever at the cathedral in Chartres? You walk the labyrinth, . . . set into the pavement, and it seems there is no sense in it. But if you follow it faithfully it leads you straight to the center. Straight to where you should be."

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Joseph Campbell

2010-02-27T08:21:00.000-08:00

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive . . . .

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Temple Grandin

2010-02-07T09:22:00.000-08:00

Language leads to abstractification and loss of detail.

Temple Grandin (and Catherine Johnson), Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Pema Chödrön

2010-01-16T03:56:00.000-08:00

. . . no matter what comes along, we're always standing at the center of the world in the middle of sacred space, and everything that comes into that circle and exists with us there has come to teach us what we need to know.

Pema Chödrön, Awakening Loving-Kindness

Mary Karr

2010-01-14T03:42:00.001-08:00

. . . nothing we truly love is ever lost, no matter what form it assumes.

Mary Karr, Lit

Wendell Berry 2

2010-01-10T19:16:00.000-08:00

What we do to the land, we do to ourselves.

Wendell Berry (cited in Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David R. Montgomery)

Wendell Berry

2010-01-03T10:43:00.000-08:00

But once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition.

Wendell Berry, "Faustian Economics", Harper's Magazine (from The Best American Essays 2009, p. 27)