Thank you, Steve, for this. Yesterday's Radio Lab show featured a taped interview of Dr. Sachs. The show's theme was how to successfully bargain with ourselves to break addictions and/or create. His bargain, when he kept procrastinating on writing his first book, "If I don't finish this book in 10 days, I'll commit suicide." He finished it in 9 days. Jann -----Original Message----- From: steve har via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical ICA-USA <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sun, Aug 30, 2015 4:17 am Subject: [Dialogue] Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks died today. He was a neurologist, a deep explorer of the human spirit and an imaginal educator: "Every time we practice an old skill or learn a new one, existing neural connections are strengthened and, over time, neurons create more connections to other neurons. Even new nerve cells can be generated". He wrote on the joy of life: "Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well -- Steve Harrington _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net