Dalai Lama wisdom? Or just plain wisdom? What's the difference?

nedhardy.com shares a list of 18 guidelines for living well. Whether or not it's a list the Dalai Lama actually used, it seems flexible enough in its prescriptions to apply to anyone. I especially like #5: "Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly."

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"A safe place to drink, or just giving up?"

CNN's Chris Welch and Tricia Escobedo ask, "Are wet houses a way to keep late-stage alcoholics safe, or do they just give up on a treatable disease?"

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Provocative ideas about human identity, meditation, & peace.

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Feeling vulnerable? Good.

Researcher Brené Brown talks about her findings on connectedness, shame as the principal obstacle to feeling connected, and embracing vulnerability (through being authentic, and therefore exposed) as the avenue to deeper experience & relationships.

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With freedom to become oneself...

Ricochet had been raised from infancy to be a service dog, but she tapped into her potential to enrich lives when freed from the expectations of her trainer and supported in expressing a more authentic self. Another example of our counterpart best friends reflecting our human experience back to us.

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Homo empathicus: an argument for evolved human consciousness.

At RSAnimate, Jeremy Rifkin asserts, "We have to begin thinking as an extended family...we have to broaden our sense of identity...we extend our identities so we can think of the human race as our fellow sojourners, and our other creatures here as part of our evolutionary family, and the biosphere as our community. If we are truly homo empathicus, then we have to bring out that core nature, because if it doesn't come out and it's repressed...the secondary drives come: the narcissism, the materialism, the violence, and the aggression..."

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Build a PocketMod and see if you like it...

Do your attempts at getting organized lead to a wall full of sticky notes or piles of half-completed "to do" lists? Do you schedule appointments in your phone, but then never check your phone's calendar? Have you lost a planner because you forgot to pick it up when you put it down? These PocketMods seem pretty handy, as long as you don't put them through the wash.

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