Graham D Brown - What I Know Now

Status Anxiety

via youtube.com The advantages of 2000 years of "Western Civilization" are familiar enough; an extraordinary increase in food supply, life expectancy, wealth, scientific knowledge and material gain. What is less apparent and perhaps more perplexing is how such impressive material advances may have gone hand-in-hand ...

Status Anxiety

via blogs.guardian.co.uk from Alain de Botton's "Status Anxiety" When Franklin D Roosevelt was asked which book he could give to Nikolia Khruschev and the Soviets to exemplify the advantages of Western capitalist society he pointed bluntly to the Sears catalogue. Such is the ...

The Need for Conflict

image from jdlejeune.com based on Eckhart Tolle's "Living a Life of Inner Peace" "Hell is the others" (Jean Paul Sartre) "Us" and the "others", "Vegetarians and meat eaters", "Jews and Arabs", "Buddhists and non-Buddhists", "Locals and foreigners", "Believers and non-believers", "Patriots and terrorists". As you ...

Impostor in my head

via brikkabrak.canalblog.com (Based on Matthieu Ricard's "Happiness") There is an impostor in my head. I believe it's the core of my self, my entity. It gives me labels - I am English, I am an entrepreneur, I am a father etc. This self-importance navigates my stream of ...

Being Awake

Sometimes called the "happiest man in the world," Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author and photographer. via ted.com To do no harm means to be awake. The basic qualities of knowing lie behind the mental construct and it is this construct that creates ...