Rob Tourtelot
You can do this now by focusing on the feeling that there is much more to life than you understand.
from How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke
đź‘€ Week 2 ~ Exploring Interoception // Fri 4th Apr 2024
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
One of the virtues of meditation is that it allows you to tolerate or even enjoy such between moments, to befriend the material your mind throws to the surface when it is not otherwise occupied by chasing something or trying to improve its condition.
from Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life by John Tarrant
- I guess I meditate because attention is my art form. I’d even wager that much of what we call art — paintings, novels, poetry — are secondary, byproducts of rarefied attention. Attention, then is the primary art form.
from Why I Meditate
- “A real writer (or artist or entrepreneur) has something to give. She has lived enough and suffered enough and thought deeply enough about her experience to be able to process it into something that is of value to others, even if only as entertainment.”
from Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It by Steven Pressfield
Sometimes we are not really lost; we already have what we need, but we haven’t noticed. Eventually a tenderness opens in us and we start to change. It doesn’t matter if it happens after long years of struggle or if it happens quickly. We just have to be grateful when it comes.
from John Tarrant : Articles by John Tarrant
The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
from The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books by Gary Keller
- Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron