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So won’t a serious mindfulness disrupt this ferkokte system, which depends on lives out of balance? After all, as Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Jay Michaelson • Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
PHILOSOPHER: When Adler refers to community, he goes beyond the household, school, workplace, and local society, and treats it as all-inclusive, covering not only nations and all of humanity but also the entire axis of time from the past to the future—and he includes plants and animals and even inanimate objects.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Ehrenberg is also interested in tracing our cultural history. Particularly, he’s interested in how modernity’s unfolding has produced distinct forms of mental illness. Ehrenberg wants to show us how these distinct forms tell us something important about modernity itself.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
Karl Jaspers made empathy central to psychiatry, a revolutionary idea at the time.
Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Karen Horney led a restless life, full of shifting passions and allegiances. But in one thing she was consistent: her independence of mind.
Susan Quinn • A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.