Mindful Matter
Almost Everything I Learned About Resilience Came from The Simpsons
Keith Lyons, Author and Writing Mentor
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Fear is not real.
Last night, I went to my wife’s friend’s girlfriend’s birthday celebration. I was a little anxious about going. It can take me a while to feel like myself around new people, and I often find it hard to connect with people during brief encounters at parties. However, I’m thrilled I went because I met Raymond. He was one of the first people
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It's all related.
"Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be..." In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., was sentenced to time in a Birmingham, Alabama, jail for participating in non-violent civil rights demonstrations. From the confines of his cell, he wrote these
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Artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, virtual reality, neural networks, cryptocurrencies — these developments (and others) are going to have a massive impact on the way we live, work, earn, and spend money. It is expected that we will live longer, but also that much of our work will be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. And concepts like
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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” - Pema Chödrön Compassion goes beyond just having pity for someone (sympathy) or even being able to feel someone else’s pain (empathy). Compassion is when
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