Spiritual Activism by Omega Institute. 3. Building the Empathy Superhighway Provided by Carla Goldstein, Co-Founder, Omega Women's Leadership Center < back to main 3. Empowerment: We use power to empower others rather than to dominate over others. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world—that is the myth of the atomic age—as in being able to remake ourselves. --Mohandas Gandhi Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, has brought to the world’s attention the need to radically change our relationship to power. Every living thing is animated by power and has power to use. Many have said that human action is fueled, or powered, by either love or fear. The problem with fear is that it is self-perpetuating. In contrast to fear, the power of love has been described in poetry, song, liturgy, and art, as that which brings us together, heals us, elevates us to our highest potential, and connects us to that which is sacred. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing. By Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better.
Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list. It is, instead, a collection of timeless texts bound to radically improve your relationship with the written word, from whichever side of the equation you approach it. If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. On a related unmissable note, let the Elements of Style Rap make your day. On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write: The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (9780307592996): Jill Lepore. The Ten Habits of a Sharp Brain. By: Alvaro Fernandez As our final article for 2011, let us repurpose one of SharpBrains’ most popular blog posts since 2006.
It may give you a few pointers to sharpen those New Years Resolutions. Let’s summarize some lifestyle guidelines we can all follow to enhance and maintain a sharp brain through life... Learn what is the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”. Now, remember that what counts is not reading this article-or any other-, but practicing a bit every day until small steps snowball into default, internalized habits…so, pick one priority for next month and start working on it.
Wishing you a sharp and happy 2012, - The SharpBrains Team. Law of Attraction and Insatiable Desire. Although my understanding of the Universal law of attraction has led me to the joyful life that I am living, I always find a reason to ask for something else. This is true for all people, including those who never actually speak their desires aloud. I receive countless questions and comments from those who are full of frustration because some aspect of their life experience is not exactly as they want it to be. They insist that life just “is not working out” for them because they cannot get to a place where they are fully satisfied. When they fix one thing, another seems to break and then another and another. If this sounds like you, I have a few tips that will help you to turn your life around today. Part of the deliciousness of the physical world is its vastness. Whenever one of your desires is met, you will have a new point-of-view from which to view your world. As a creator, you immediately summon Law of Attraction via your thoughts on the subject of your desire.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow. Institute for Advanced Studies In Culture: Publications - The Hedgehog Review. Current Issue Summer 2017 (19.2) The accelerating urbanization of the world can be viewed as either the hope or the bane of our global future. Yet at a time when more than half of the world’s population inhabits cities and so much thought and study have been devoted to the challenges and possibilities of urban life, surprisingly little attention is paid to the crucial purpose and meaning of cities. Recovering the cultural dimension in thinking about the future of our cities may be the best way to make them the solution and not the problem. Table of Contents | Order Spring 2017 (19.1) To capture some sense of the self at this post-modern moment, we examine the key features of our deeper cultural code. Table of Contents | Order Fall 2016 (18.3) Science has been central to the rise of the modern world.
Table of Contents | Order From our Recent Issues From Spring 2017 (19.1) The Devil We Know by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig The devil just isn’t what he used to be. From Fall 2016 (18.3) Science Anxiety Blog. Tolstoy's Answer | Creative Intelligence. Creative Clinic. Monday, September 20th, 2010 It’s short story time. This one’s by Leo Tolstoy, the writer every aspiring novelist should read. Daily, if possible. It’s called: ‘Three Questions’ and some of you may know it as it’s rather famous. Tolstoy’s answer to the questions is a key principle of creative intelligence. It’s not too long. One day it occurred to a certain emperor that if he only knew the answers to three questions, he would never stray in any matter: What is the best time to do each thing? The emperor issued a decree throughout his kingdom announcing that whoever could answer the questions would receive a great reward.
In reply to the first question, one person advised that the emperor make up a thorough time schedule, consecrating every hour, day, month, and year for certain tasks and then follow the schedule to the letter. The responses to the second question also lacked accord. The third question drew a similar variety of answers. “But what have you done that I should forgive you?” Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (9780143145080): Daniel H. Pink. Lectures: Summers - Floating University. Decoding the DNA of Education in Search of Actual Knowledge. LAWRENCE SUMMERS, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, Economist, Former President of Harvard Lesson Overview What will historians say about our time 250 years from now? Lawrence Summers, economist, professor, former president of Harvard University, and economic adviser to President Obama, asks this question in a thought provoking lecture about the evolution of ideas and the critical importance of education in an increasingly multi-faceted world.
Human welfare has accelerated in the last two centuries at an unprecedented rate, and Summers argues that all innovations, revolutions, and moral advances in society arise from pure ideas. Conventional wisdom starts as controversy, and today’s undergraduate students are tasked with advancing the agenda of human knowledge out of the dark age in which we reside and are unable to recognize. Readings Course Pack: Anthony Kronman, Education’s End. Discussion Questions. The Power of Cosmic Thinking | Re-Envision.
There is a Native American belief that one has the responsibility to think seven generations ahead. While this is a nice sentiment, it's not good enough, argue Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack in their book Abrams and Primack argue we are living in a cosmically pivotal moment today, and we have a higher level of responsibility than any generation that came before us. Abrams and Primack write: "We and our children may be the most significant generations of humans that have yet lived," which means we carry a far greater burden of responsibility than any previous generation. Through the discipline of scientific cosmology we are starting to glimpse a newly emerging scientific picture of the universe.
For instance, we have come to the understanding that we are close to the midpoint of our solar system. The sun is now 4.6 billion years old, out of a potential 10 billion year lifespan. How do we go about that? Such Bravery. After my husband’s funeral, I closed the gate and wandered back to our salt-rimed townhouse, through a throng of youngsters and their bitter songs of Jerusalem. My guardsman trailed at a distance. St. Mary’s overlooked the harbor’s rotted halls. Shadows stretched over the glittering wash, where gulls turned above a crowd of galleys and cogs. A few of the so-called children lurked under that damned fresco, freshly daubed on the alehouse opposite my home “Shoo them off, Aremio,” I said, and he did, invoking the militia and the family and all that is holy. The fresco. Though dusk fell, the painted adventurer’s contours were clear, violence in her kohled eyes, in lips stained with berries and sap.
“Do you see what it is?” Secco touches were ruined where young hands had scraped at painted gems. “Old enough to look after themselves,” said Aremio, who knew of my past. “There’s nothing in adventure,” I said, approaching the painted wall. “We’ve seen that today, yes.” Too late. “Myself, you ask?” Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (Series on School Reform) (9780807752579): Pasi Sahlberg. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions [Book]
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