Posted on March 28, 2008 by neijia
More from neuroscience (the stories just seem to be everywhere, in this case from Scientific American):
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that we can acquire a greater capacity for compassion through meditation training, in much the same way as athletes or musicians train to improve their skill.
Again we find a modern scientific explanation [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by neijia
This video is quite extraordinary. An expert in neuroscience and advocate for people with mental illness, Jill Bolte Taylor, suffered her own stroke and, amazingly, had enough clarity during it to realize she was having a stroke and she should take advantage of a rare opportunity to try to study the brain from the inside [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2008 by neijia
Came across a wonderful quote on the Abu Dhabi Combat Club site:
the purpose in life is to discovery [sic] your gifts; the meaning of life is to give them away
Very nice. Give it away. What a good attitude and words to live by.
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