Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
Check out Chat with Jayasāra: Love and Memory, from the Waking Up app:
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0E128CF4
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0E128CF4
Chasing peak experiences is chasing a false summit. They just turn to memories and delude you into striving and away from the present
What if your path is a spiral?
One of my favorite quotes comes from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse:
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
There are many moments on your journey where you’ll... See more
instagram.comPut another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been taught to always strive for better, even if we have only the vaguest notion of what that “better” would look like, and even if it means viewing everything in our world as raw material that could potentially be utilized toward that end. But obedience to something... See more
Kelsey Osgood • Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail
The case for spirituality as a fundamental choice over a self-improvement treadmill. Obedience feels like a strange word here but it feels like theres truth in the sentiment
In practice, this felt like releasing tension. A healthy inner space was created between me and the dirty kid in my mind. That person wasn’t identical to me, I was not my history. Simultaneously, though, I didn’t need to reject that person, either. This act of acceptance triggered a whole-body relaxation. It was like opening up a lens: unclenching... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
What engaging in IFS feels like
Annual PSA to remember to get all your "Happy New Year’s" in by January 3rd….please respect the statute of limitations on the New Year 🤣 https://t.co/A5SyCrOcEg
Wu Tang is for the Childrenx.comOf course Schubert might not be the right prescription, and finding the proper dose takes experimentation. Why is it that one Bach suite calms a teenager with severe autism, while another incites him to punch a hole through her cello?
How the Sound of Music Can Be Healing. Literally.
“Linguistically, a duvet day feels gentle and generous, while rotting in bed conjures up a sense of decay, of life collapsing in on itself. Bed rotting doesn’t shy away from the sticky experience of staying in the same clothes all day or the lethargy that can come from lying down for hours on end.”
The grossness is the point — because, as O’Sullivan
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