The Dalai Lama shares wisdom on the meaning of life

Sometimes it's not so hard to comprehend...

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/dalai_lama_at_a_santa_fe_ski_resort_tells_waitress_the_meaning_of_life.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top

post Nostalgia and Swimmer aphorisms

• The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten…

• The past is interesting only if you have a rich present.

• And suddenly you’ve got this huge new territory inside you, which is the past—which wasn’t there before.  A new source of strength…

More on Hemingway--from Liesl Schillinger

Hemingway’s sensibility struck my teenage self as inarticulate and sexist.

                  The first time I encountered a reputedly great novel that I could not stand was in my senior year of high school. My A.P. English teacher had assigned “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” by Ernest Hemingway, and as I read it, I felt boredom, then anger, then incredulity. The main characters — the macho Robert Jordan; his compliant love interest, Maria; and his friend, the “ugly” virago Pilar — seemed to have been slapped like paper dolls against the background of the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway’s sensibility struck my teenage self as inarticulate and sexist. Stunned that this book and its author had earned such acclaim, I went to the library to hunt for clues to Hemingway’s psyche, hoping to understand his motivations, if not his fame.