The artist after all is a solitary being.
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open. . . The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire. . . not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual. "
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.