Quotes from Arianna Huffington

El sistema está roto», o «el gobierno está demasiado polarizado como para someterlo a una reforma severa». Sí, hay muchas cosas que los gobiernos deben hacer, pero no podemos delegar nuestra compasión a nuestro gobierno y sentarnos a un lado quejándonos del hecho de que no hace lo suficiente. Desde

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

Darkness, within the intimate confines of a bed, leveled social distinctions despite differences in gender and status. Most individuals did not readily fall asleep but conversed freely. In the absence of light, bedmates coveted that hour when, frequently, formality and etiquette perished by the bedside." Further

Socrates defines his life's mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive.

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because an infant is born with only 25 percent of its adult brain volume, "its physiological systems are unable to function optimally without contact with the mother's body, which continues to regulate the baby much like it did during gestation." McKenna

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together, has written about the cost of constantly documenting—i.e., photographing—our lives. These interruptions, she writes, "make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything." And by so-obsessively documenting our experiences, we never truly have them.

beings. When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

bring ourselves back to that place of stillness, imperturbability, and loving—until it becomes second nature to return quickly to what is our true nature.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes—it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life

Perhaps smartphones at a party should be treated like coats, usually taken to a back room or otherwise stowed away until guests are ready to leave—a signal, like taking off your coat, that you're happy to be here and you're going to stay awhile.

is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind.… 

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

A New Blueprint: Time to Renovate the Architecture of Our Lives

According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the more money you have, the more likely you are to suffer from time famine.

expressing gratitude for even the smallest kindnesses shown to me;

those at the top of the income spectrum are among the most likely to be time-poor.