March 2012
14 posts
“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of...”
– Erich Fromm
“Things like disappointment and anxiety are messengers telling us that we’re...”
– Pema Chodran: When Things Fall Apart
“… the silence is full of mysterious new emotions.”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“… things are not so rose-coloured at the end of a journey as at the...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“But she could restrain herself no longer; the strong arms seemed to take away...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: Daisy
“She looked at the well-remembered shops, the stationery shop with its...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: Daisy
“His soul shouted with the joy of living… He walked along, too excited to...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“‘You may look upon a bottle of port in two ways,’ he said;...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“But he was very different from ordinary schoolmasters, for he was a scholar and...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“And so the writer sometimes grows weary to death of the life he sees, and he...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: The Choice Of Amyntas
“…but in his soul remained a darkness deeper than that of the blackest...”
– W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Story: Faith
“It is also crucial for the rider to learn is to become a ‘whisperer’ of the...”
– Mindfulness as becoming the ‘whisperer’ of J. Haidt’s elephant
February 2012
17 posts
“She and Dr. Cloninger both advise neophiles to be selective in their targets....”
– Novelty-Seeking (Neophilia) Can Be a Predictor of Well-Being - NYTimes.com
“What was the secret to their happy temperament and character? A trio of traits....”
– Novelty-Seeking (Neophilia) Can Be a Predictor of Well-Being - NYTimes.com
“Yet I, like most people, have become inundated with Too Much Information about...”
– T.M.I. - I Don’t Want to Know - NYTimes.com
“What we’re losing, Ms. Turkle said, is a healthy form of compartmentalization....”
– T.M.I. - I Don’t Want to Know - NYTimes.com
“Alas, what strikes us as witty, original and winning often comes across to the...”
– T.M.I. - I Don’t Want to Know - NYTimes.com
