Skip to main content

Home/ MVIFI Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation/ Group items tagged HumanCentered

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Bo Adams

Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded - The New York Times - 0 views

  • We all need to be needed.
  • Virtually all the world’s major religions teach that diligent work in the service of others is our highest nature and thus lies at the center of a happy life.
  • Americans who prioritize doing good for others are almost twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Everyone has something valuable to share. We should start each day by consciously asking ourselves, “What can I do today to appreciate the gifts that others offer me?”
  • what unites the two of us in friendship and collaboration is not shared politics or the same religion. It is something simpler: a shared belief in compassion, in human dignity, in the intrinsic usefulness of every person to contribute positively for a better and more meaningful world.
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20 items per page