Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
đŤ Week 1 ~ Nervous System Fundamentals // Fri 29th March 2024
youtube.comI 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. Itâs the absolute best. Itâs not easy but it never gets old.
Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
Sometimes this takes the shape of resistance: I decide a feeling or a situation is bad on the spot and start to fight back before I know whatâs there. Other times, this takes the shape of discomfort and shame: I am feeling a new way, so something must be wrong .
Heather Havrilesky ⢠Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger
Ordinary means that there is no need to add or take away from what is going on in the mind. Each portion of life has the whole of life. There is nothing wrong with what is in the mind except the sense that something is wrong. In this way simplicity turns to a form of compassion.
John Tarrant ⢠Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Over and over again we will have to do this. We will forget. Farther down the path, tomorrow, or perhaps later today, we will forget about stillness. And when we do, we will have lost the thread. Without this central practice, none of it will make any sense.
Stephen Cope ⢠The Wisdom of Yoga
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 itâll be just what we
... See moreZenju Earthlyn Manuel ⢠Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart
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
... See moreDean Sluyter ⢠Natural Meditation
by gems I do NOT mean the authorâs ideas or theories. Those are the last things we want. We want to form our own ideas. By gems I mean a little glimpse of something surprising and dissonant and mysterious â a person or a situation or a moment in history where you think, âI didnât expect that â or âI donât understand that , Iâd like to go down a... See more
Jon Ronson ⢠Jon Ronson | Substack
â... This aliveness is always here. We donât have to work to get it. It is ever-present. Seeking enlightenment is a form of postponement, postponing what can only be realized now ...â ~ Joan Tollifson