Sutta Nipata - Who is your worst enemy?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded
thoughts.
Sutta Nipata

Norwid on Happiness

To be what is called happy, one should have
(1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to
die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.

/Cyprian Norwid (19^th century Polish poet)/

The Secret of Eternal Happiness (Robin Sharma)

Find out what you truly love to do and then direct all your energy towards doing it

Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari, p. 55

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Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge - Christina Feldman

Mindfulness is neither difficult nor complex;
Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge

 

Christina Feldman

Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, Wisdom, Christina Feldman

Read On: Christina Feldman on Stillness and Insight and Dependent Origination

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Frankl on the last of the human freedoms

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

Viktor Frankl

Too much information: David Fontanta

A single issue of the New York Times contains more pieces of information in its pages than an educated 18th-century man or woman would have met with in a whole lifetime

 David Fontana (Mediation Week by Weke, p. 16)

On the relationship between philosophy and psychology

We need both philosophy and  psychology.

Psychology without philosophy lacks wisdom.

Philosophy without psychology lacks science.

We need to integrate the best of philosophy and science
We need to develop  wisdom-informed science. and science-informed wisdom.

Tim LeBon

The 80/20 Rule (Pareto)

 

The Pareto Principle and how to manage time better

80% of the results are derived by 20% of activities.

 80% of activities yield only 20% of the results .

Which activities make up your most productive 20%?

Which activities are least productive?

The essence of time management - M.Neenan & W.Dryden

The essence of time management is knowing what your values and goals are in life and making the optimum use of your time to achieve those ends

Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden

Life Coaching - a Cognitive-Behavioural Approach (p. 58)

Neenan and Dryden provide one more motivation for becoming more aware of your values and goals in life.

"Flowers and butterflies and children dancing in the sun are good". Richard Robinson

Yet it is very strange if the layman needs Oxford philosophers to tell him that milk and cheese are good, that flowers and butterflies and children dancing in the sun are good, that love and joy and companionship and laughter are good. Is there really anyone who is in the unpleasant condition of not caring about anything and wishing he did care about something?

Richard Robinson An Atheist's Values 1.1

We have all got light and dark inside us. (JK Rowling)

 

We have all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we chose to act on. That's who we really are.

 

J.K. Rowling (Sirius Black in the film of Harry Potter in The Order of the Phoenix)

Detect this moment's meaning (Frankl)

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
VIKTOR FRANKL