Monday, April 16, 2007

Interlude: Meditation

If you've never checked out Interlude: Meditation of the Week, I highly recommend it as a source for good useful ideas about....for lack of a cleared term - "how to live a good life."

For example, the meditation for April 16th is titled, "What is the Self?"

In it, Tom Barret writes -

"We might think of this model of self as made up of an accumulation of roles that you play quite effectively and those that are less well developed. For one person, the role of musician may be well developed. The person has studied music, practiced, performed and received applause. That part of self is well established. Another person, perhaps with the same latent talent never studied, practiced or performed, so has an undeveloped musician role. In this type of model, there is no point in calling oneself names. It would not make sense to think of oneself as being unworthy or being a loser. Instead one would be able to assume that problems are the result of having less developed skills in a particular role or set of roles."


That sounds like really good advice to me.