Richard Fernandez, whom I heard speak at the Awakened Leadership Conference, formerly worked as a trainer at Google's Search Inside Yourself mindfulness program, but went off on his own to form his own mindfulness training consulting company, "Wisdom Labs" (he subsequently has become Executive Director of Google's spin-off, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute).
The tunes are out there! Jimmy Fallon has consulted the wisdom of adorable puppies before.
Meanwhile, I consulted the wisdom of the ages (by listening to Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," three times in a row).
Imagine the good monarch from a desert planet, the one you'd consult for wisdom just as your universe-saving mission started falling apart.
Lincoln regarded Shakespeare, whose 445th birthday was last week, as many things: an oracle to be consulted for wisdom; a pastor with whom to share confidences and from whom to seek comfort, a friend.
As if God needed to consult His wisdom so that what He wills should be wise?
"Is it an expression of rigorous exactitude to say of God that He consults His wisdom, and that is how it comes about that everything He wills is wise," Arnauld asks, "as if the word consult is suitable for an infinitely perfect being when one professes not to speak in popular language?
It is to compare God to a man who consults his wisdom about everything he wants to do "as if he were afraid of not acting well, and his will needed to be ruled by something other than itself in order to do only what is good" (OA, 39 599 600).
Full knowledge of this frailty of unenlightened beings was no doubt part of the wisdom Dharmakara acquired after consulting countless Buddhas - a supreme wisdom that led him to structure his salvic Vow just as he did.
In response to the conventional wisdom that consulting such ancient models and methods is anachronistic and introduces unscientific beliefs and biases that obstruct solid research, I draw your attention to the fact that the most prolific and cutting-edge teams in the field work closely with traditional contemplative scientists and traditionally trained expert practitioners.
In a hunt for happiness, the author consulted science, ancient wisdom and pop culture.
