live Your Best life..

Yousuf Karsh and People

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Meet the people through the eyes of Karsh

I've lived 30 years..

30 years..!
I feel like I ran out of the excuses.

 I don't want to get to the end of my life

and find out that I lived just the length of it.

I want to have lived the width of it as well.

-Diane Ackerman

The power of vulnerability

To my husband, who freed me to be vulnerable, and to love him whole heartedly.

AWEsome

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Unlike the "me, me, me" that most varieties of pleasure trigger, AWE MAKES US FEEL WARM and fuzzy toward those around us.
Overwhelming, surprising, humbling, even alittle terrifying- Awe is what we feel when faced with something sublime, exceptional or altogether beyond comprehension.
How can science measure the feeling of peering over the Grand Canyon or holding your newborn for the first time?
Dacher Keltner, PhD believes that more nuanced sensations-compassion, forgiveness, humility, and awe are what push us beyond self-interest and "wire us for good." Cultivating awe, he says, is part of unlocking the truest sense of life's purpose. In Keltner's words, awe shifts a person's thinking "toward the collective" - O, Nov 2010