Rob Tourtelot
- For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first s... See more
from Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. by Tara Brach
- “We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which ... See more
from A quote from The White Album
Big stories are hard stories to tell, because the big parts of these stories are often singular in nature. Unusual. Unique. Hardly relatable. This holds true for all my big stories.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
I often start my story in one place and end up working my way closer and closer to the end as I revise.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
- describing something well is both an act of incredible generosity and a literary challenge of the highest order.
from Looking Closely Is Everything by Craig Mod
There will be a small group of “What” and “How” questions that you will find yourself using in nearly every situation. Here are a few of them: What are we trying to accomplish? How is that worthwhile? What’s the core issue here? How does that affect things? What’s the biggest challenge you face? How does this fit into what the objective is?
from Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Tahl Raz
We need to let it go, let our life flow through our hands like a river and not try to grab some piece of it and hold on to it. Just to be present with it and find out how to express our vow in this moment, in this circumstance, right where we are right now, instead of trying to figure out how to make it the way we want so that it’ll be just what we
... See morefrom Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart by Zenkei Blanche Hartman
- I want to invent new paths forward every day. And I want to make people feel their way to the truth. I want to rearrange their hearts using my words. I want to redesign their minds -- artfully and thoughtfully and inventively. When I give that gift to someone else, I receive it, too. It’s the absolute best. It’s not easy but it never gets old.
from Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky