Don't Think Again

A friend shared this blog post with me over Google Buzz, so I went ahead and watched the following TED talk : I'm a fairly eager reader/viewer, but it's tough to properly separate good content, as most of you guys must be aware. One little guy whose talks I've always enjoyed so much is Eckhart Tolle. If you're not familiar with his work or "line of thought", so to speak, I'll try to summarize the part that I think relates to the happiness research. One's mind, emotions, body and experiences are not one's own self. The mystery of what oneself is cannot ever be explained by words, but words can point to it. Some such words are: consciousness, alertness, stillness, god, nothingness, higher self, silent observer and so on. Now, I'll let my own little mind play around a bit with these concepts. On one hand, there are several researchers, men of science, just like me. On the other hand, Mr. Eckhart Tolle, who could be accused of being a...

I write a lot. Too much, maybe. For example, I'm writing on my iPhone on my way to the daily obligations I chose to undertake. That's why sometimes my posts come poorly formatted: I'm using this free iPhone app that fails miserably on properly formatting text. Much like what I do on YouTube, what I'm doing matters less than actually doing it. Because I believe that, I'll easily throw myself at any ideas that cross my mind and beg to be made into something. Of course, sometimes my execution - whether on text or on camera - isn't half as good as the idea deserved, and it just might end up sitting on my hard drive or deleted into oblivion. It's terribly hard to tell good and bad ideas before trying them. Even so, there will be occasions in which awesome ideas just show up uninvited at very busy times. Can't blame them, but why oh why weren't they there when we needed them? Sure, one can write them down and try to work on them later. You might even sit d...