End of Year Post – What I’m Reading – The Week of December 29th
* My Favorite Year-End Lessons Learned Post: “These are the major things I’ve learned this year, in no particular order…”
* On Cultivating and Sustaining Love: “Love is losing yourself in the process of caring about and showing undivided attention to someone or something, through ups and downs. It’s as simple and as hard as that.”
* On Planning For The Ups and Downs of Happiness: “There are time when all the lies you have told yourself about yourself just fall away.”
* On Attention Being A Valuable Resource: “In many ways, we are what we pay attention to. The things that we work on also work on us. Everything we take in has an effect on the taker-inner, on us. Our attention is perhaps the most precious resource there is. We need to use it as skillfully as we can.”
* On Fake Versus Real Toughness: “The strongest people we know tend to be caring, considerate, and calm. The people we know who want to be strong and tough — but who are not — tend to be loud, defensive, and overly proud.”