Natalie Audelo

"I have learned that whenever I think "I don't have enough time to do that" what I usually mean is "I don't have enough energy" or "I am not actually interested in doing this."

What I need to do a better job of is not managing my time, but rather caring for myself and identifying my true interests. When I am well rested and working on something I... See more

It is rare that anyone gets through an Earth School journey without collecting some pretty gnarly wounds. So rare, in fact, that it seems to me that trauma is an inescapable part of the Earth School curriculum. Not a bug, as they say, but a feature.

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

I’ve been comforted and energized by this idea — which I first heard in this interview with the novelist Zadie Smith — that caretaking is a kind of liberation.

It’s liberation from the idea that we can self-optimize ourselves to the point of not needing anyone else. That if we work hard enough to survive in a competitive economy, we’ll be able to... See more

And across my life of conversation, I have learned that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments precisely like ours, though ours is writ large, where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay, power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, mystery and conviction, brokenness and beauty, calm and... See more

“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”