Intentionality

Arthur de Villemandy, co-founder of Capsule, during which I inquired about the tricks employed by his curators. He responded with remarkable clarity, stating, "Curation isn't about accumulating; it's about the art of non-choice. What truly matters is the overall coherence of the selections." This shift from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) to NOMO (Neces... See more

Been listening to more of Rob Burbea and appreciate his emphasis on how clarifying your specific + personal desire to meditate is often completely missed — and how it impacts the way that the practice will unfold. Seems like this could also be extrapolated to many other areas of life... where nuances in your motivation will impact the landscape of... See more

If you don’t have a good handle on what you want, or even worse, you don’t actually consult it, you could make decisions which are not really in your interests.

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

― Simone Weil

What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is ... See more

Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.

Pessimists see problems. They worry about what could go wrong in the future. Optimists see possibilities. They focus on what could go right in the future. Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future.