Rob Tourtelot
“The thing to do when you’re confused,” instructed the shaman, “is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is watching you.”
from The Wisdom of Yoga by Stephen Cope
If anxiety, anger, or any other feeling comes along and is just some mild atmosphere in the background of your experience, don't worry about it. But if it's so strong that it stomps up to the foreground and demands to be addressed, note how it feels ... physically. Neutrally, nonjudgmentally, matter-of-factly, allow yourself to experience the sensa
... See morefrom Natural Meditation by Dean Sluyter
We need a story to help us navigate our lives. But it's possible to also see beyond the story to the mystery. It's not either/or . it's both/and.
from How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke
- After the death of a loved one, the incoming messages seem scrambled for a while. At times, closeness with our deceased loved one feels incredibly visceral, as though they are present in the room, here and now. At other times, the string seems to have fallen off the board — not shorter or longer than it was before, but simply stolen from us entirel... See more
from Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing by Maria Popova
- Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.
from Navigating the Mysteries by Emergence Magazine
- When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.
Jiddu Krishnamurtifrom Just a moment...
- Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other."
- Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.
from Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
We so routinely look outside of ourselves for answers that when we turn to look within, it can feel foreign. It can feel challenging, confusing, scary, and painful.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube