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The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living May 6, 2011 | 42 Comments » | Topics: Life, List At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. via OwenKelly Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories

Madeleine Rosca Interview - Interview With Manga Creator of Hollow Fields Q: How did Hollow Fields get picked up by Seven Seas Manga? Madeleine: In November 2005, I launched Hollow Fields on Wirepop, which is an online webmanga community. One of the other artists at Seven Seas saw Hollow Fields and told their boss about it. He contacted me with an email, which had the header, "How would you like to be published in the U.S?" I thought it was a hoax because it sounded too good to be true, and I asked him for proof of who he was! The boss was Jason DeAngelis, who's in charge of Seven Seas. Hollow Fields was hosted just three days on Wirepop before getting the offer from Seven Seas.True story. Q: Last year, you received honorable mention in the first International Manga Award competition sponsored by the Japanese Government – a major accomplishment! Madeleine: Seven Seas knew about the contest, and entered several of its books, including mine. This caused problems at the awards ceremony, though. Madeleine: I was a bit stunned. The Ghibli Museum was wonderful.

The 9 Epiphanies That Shifted My Perspective Forever By David Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that, I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience. If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’sdoing the observing? 2. Of course! 3. 4. 5. Yikes. 6. This discovery was a complete 180 from my old understanding of emotions. 7. 8. 9.

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