Sublime

“Specifically speaking,” he said to Ward, “the few rules I know in this art are my own afterthoughts, or else directly formulated from the masterpieces I reread.”

Note: Arjuna, the quintessential man of action, spends the entire Gita on his butt.

5. Stepping Out

the development of integrative structures and processes in the brain (Delmonte, 1995; Siegel, 2012).

“No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little,” he wrote. It was time to press.

Unification means simply that everything in your life must line up around the spine of your dharma. Eventually, everything that is not dharma must fall away—as

MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Every single book from Mihaly expanded my perspective on what it takes to live an enjoyable life. He is the pioneer of the “flow” philosophy. If you want a starting point for reversing “psychic entropy,” read his book Flow.

At the core of interpersonal neurobiology is our proposal that mindsight permits us to direct the flow of energy and information toward integration. And integration—which we’ll be exploring in many of its real-world applications—is seen to be at the heart of well-being.

“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer,” wrote Albert Camus,