Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what's key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one's agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality
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Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.
Ram Dass • Be Here Now
I am also slowly learning that being present is not just about giving my full attention to whatever is happening right now. It is also about recognising that what I have is good, and then wanting what I have.
“We are only leading when we are centered on making others better.”
Superhuman
The questions in every intimate relationship and close friendship are the same: Can you see this person clearly? Will you let them see you clearly? Are you too afraid? Are you too ashamed? Can you feel your feelings? Can you dare to let someone into your heart and trust them? Can this person let you in, or are they secretly terrified?
Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
“The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.... Say anything, but be respectful. Say—maybe say, Heart, little heart, beat softly but never forget your job, the blood. You can whisper also, Remember, remember." ~ Grace Paley’s "My Father Addresses Me on the Facts... See more
"The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning" ~Grace Paley
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching... See more
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... See more