True Compassion Means Not Only Feeling Another's

When We Focus On Others, Our World Expands.

The Industrial Processes In Use Today Were Developed At A Time When No One Had To Consider What The Environmental Impact Was. Who Cared? But Making Ecological Concerns Matter To A Company's Bottom Line Will Help It Do The Research And Development That Will Reinvent Everything We Buy.

As A Freshman In College, I Was Having A Lot Of Trouble Adjusting. I Took A Meditation Class To Handle Anxiety. It Really Helped. Then As A Grad Student At Harvard, I Was Awarded A Pre-doctoral Traveling Fellowship To India, Where My Focus Was On The Ancient Systems Of Psychology And Meditation Practices Of Asia.

If You Do A Practice And Train Your Attention To Hover In The Present, Then You Will Build The Internal Capacity To Do That As Needed - At Will And Voluntarily.

The Near Cousin Of Optimism Is Hope: Knowing The Steps Needed To Get To A Goal And Having The Energy To Pursue Those Steps. It Is A Primal Motivating Force, And Its Absence Is Paralyzing.