Hypocrisy

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

— Oscar Wilde

Ask by The Smiths

Tending to the teen in my heart

The Empathic Civilization

The Empathic Civilization, a case for how mirror neurons indicate that our essence is rooted in empathy.

Likes & Dislikes

“It is especially by our “likes and dislikes” that we cut ourselves off from the wider mind (and the wider world). Likes and dislikes are the lapdogs and guard dogs of the ego, busy all the time, panting and barking at the gates of attachment and aversion and thereby narrowing perception and experience”

— John Cage

Women's Creativity

Anais Nin talking about finding her own path as a writer, as a woman.

Friends... A New World

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anais Nin

Do Schools Kill Creativity

Ken Robinson on the assault on creativity in the education system.

I Am Human

“I am human, nothing human is alien to me.”

— Terence