Robin Harford
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my mus
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- What is the point of building a digital business?
On the surface, a benign question.
The simplest argument is that we build a business to make money and earn a living (from our intellectual work).
While this may technically be true, I would argue that earning a living from our work is a benefit of something more significant.
Revenue is the byproduct o... See morefrom Re: Launch Announcement (Hand Raise...)
- Taste is some combination of design, user experience, and emotional resonance that defines how a product connects with people and aligns with their values and identity.
from Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley. by Anu Atluru
- ...whatever success I have had has been through writing what I know about.”
from Ernest Hemingway’s Tips on Writing — Turner Stories
Ernest Hemingway
In a world where black African colonists are annexing the traditional lands of fair-skinned Nemadi hunters, where Celts struggle against English domination while Basques in Spain and Koryaks in Russia fight to retain their ancient lands and languages, where diasporic peoples of various skin tones have been making babies together for generations in
... See more(Hard Core Republican) “The deep state tried to take out our guy because they’re scared of what will happen when he gets elected.”
(Hard Core Democrat) “The assassination attempt was staged for political benefit.”In the process his perception was washed clean of mental and emotional formations that blurred his vision of the way things really are: impermanent, empty, self-less, undying.
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton
Merton had recovered the Tao, the way of nature, in all its immediacy and transformative power, by the practice of self-forgetful attentiveness to creation that drew him out of his distorting mental preoccupations. This entrainment to nature brought him to his senses, letting him experience the naked vitality of life encompassing him on all sides.
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton
The great storyteller of “Monk's pond” had no story to tell anymore; he was simply attending to the “wild being” he shared with creation, sensing it a “strange awakening to find the sky inside you and beneath you and above you and all around you so that your spirit is one with the sky” (SJ, p. 340).
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton