Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder
I call these experiences our dark teachers. The lessons that hurt, scare, scar, wound, and almost destroy us are very often the things that make us who we are because they require us to muster what we thought we could not muster—courage, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, love, resilience, strength, generosity of spirit, ferocity of heart. The time... See more
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Instead of asking: "Do you have any questions?", ask "What questions do you have?"
The first almost always results in silence, while the second helps people feel comfortable asking questions.
a good story, by definition, has to be smarter than the person who wrote it. Because if it’s less smart, that means the writer wasn’t writing a story but assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Most of the masterpieces I’ve encountered were smarter than their creators, and often more decent and purely good than them, too.
Etgar Keret • So you think you can tell?
'I'm Overcome By Grief and Rage, But I Need Love and Support!
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The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
When presencing or resting in the nature of mind, mental events are said to effortlessly “self-liberate” and spontaneously dissolve on their own, no longer held in place through movements of attraction or aversion based on reification; this is described as the “method” of Dzogchen (Norbu, 2006)
Jeremy Axelrad • File
Writing doesn’t just change the way we understand our lives or the world. It changes us. Sometimes, it saves us.
Dear Scared to Feel Too Much: Sometimes, Writing Saves Us
Typical open-ended questions are variations on “Tell me more” and “Help me understand better ….”