Posts Tagged ‘satori’

The key observation

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Humans are essentially social animals. No man is an island. Etc. You’ve heard it all, but now there’s science that actually kind of shows it.
Happiness, in short, is not merely a function of personal experience, but also is a property of groups. Emotions are a collective phenomenon.
Happy people tend to cluster with happy people, and [...]

Posted in Science and Technology | No Comments »

Sentences to meditate on

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Jonathan Carroll’s never-emptying cornucopia of awesome brings us this quote today:
I live near the abyss. I hope to stay.
–Theodore Roethke

Yes, I quite like that. A little bit Nietzsche, a little bit Billy Joel. It, at least to me, says something about an artistic way to live.
Actually, and this is probably sharing too much, this brings [...]

Posted in Storytime | 2 Comments »