Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

Compassion begins with attention.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.