Empathy Represents The Foundation Skill For All

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.

Risk Taking And The Drive To Pursue Innovative Ideas Are The Fuel That Stokes The Entrepreneurial Spirit.

The More Socially Intelligent You Are, The Happier And More Robust And More Enjoyable Your Relationships Will Be.

Emotional 'literacy' Implies An Expanded Responsibility For Schools In Helping To Socialize Children. This Daunting Task Requires Two Major Changes: That Teachers Go Beyond Their Traditional Mission And That People In The Community Become More Involved With Schools As Both Active Participants In Children's Learning And As Individual Mentors.

All The Classical Meditation Traditions, In One Way Or Another, Stress Nonattachment To The Self As A Goal Of Practice. Oddly, This Dimension Is Largely Ignored In Scientific Research, Which Tends To Focus On Health And Other Such Benefits. I Suppose The Difference Has To Do With The Contrast In Views Of The Self From The Spiritual And Scientific Perspectives. Scientists Value The Self; Spiritual Traditions Have Another Perspective.