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January 19 - February 28, 2020
the critical point for beneficially influencing human spiritual evolution is the heart.254
Tiller turned to Information Medicine to broadcast self-compassion to people with loneliness. Self-compassion means being kind toward oneself in times of pain or failure, perceiving one’s experiences as part of life’s broader experience, and holding painful thoughts and feelings in balanced awareness.
many felt anxiety, a feeling of daily unease, and a lack of fulfillment.
An empowerment factor to diminish personal fearfulness
The intention to bring about incremental and sustainable gains in an individual’s progress. The self-compassion broadcast provided a metaphorical staircase; each participant was presented with a new step on a staircase. They
had to take the step up, and once they did, they remained on that step.
Love can be viewed as a force of nature, like entropy or molecular decay.
To advance and enhance modern healthcare, healing on all levels is important.
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of personal growth and registering new experiences. As we value experiences above things, we get more conscious and more open to more profound and more complex experiences. We all know the immense progress in machine learning. What remains to be seen is the progress of human consciousness: How fast and deep will it go?
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as that as what they most want to do and, even if their genius is unrecognized in their lifetime, the essential earthly reward is always theirs, the certainty that their work is
good and will stand the test of time. One suspects that the geniuses will be least in the Kingdom of Heaven—if, indeed, they ever make it; they have had their reward. W. H. Auden, from the opening page of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman265
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
