“Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.” WayChildrenSelfHardPlayWholeOpportunityNaturalSpaceBrainDangerOffersSafeDemandDiscoveryThreatSeparationSelf DiscoveryManageUrgesMasteryAbandonmentRenderingSafe SpaceSociability Author:Daniel Goleman
“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.” WorldGivingYearsHeartEndsMatterTodayJoyEasyLosesGoneOur LivesSightMourningUrgesSlipsThings That MatterToday's World Author:Roger Housden
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.” SaidPoetReaderValidityPoetry By Famous Poets Author:W. H. Auden
“The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.” ShouldRiskCuriousExplorersTransgression Author:T. S. Eliot
“Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.” AgeLyingStarsOld AgeGenesVigorous Author:George Vaillant
“In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.” IfsWorldWayMindFirstsLooksMayStatesInterestBrainKnownBuddhismHealthyFirst TimeEnthusiasmState Of MindEngagementBeginnersOptimal Author:Louis Cozolino
“I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.” HonorWithin You Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.” HeartIndividualLanguageVoiceEmotionCompassionStudyExpressionGratitudeGoodnessOriginalsSpreadContactMediumsPrimariesCooperationFacialLove And GratitudeFacial Expression Author:Dacher Keltner
“In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.” PeopleSeemsAgeGrowsEssentialsAbsenceTouchedTouchingSunlight Author:Diane Ackerman