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Steven Schlafman

“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing

The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we hang onto any form,we are in danger of putrefaction.

To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. —David Whyte

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. ~ Gregory Bateson

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Steven Schlafman

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. ~ Gregory Bateson

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Steven Schlafman

To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. —David Whyte

Go to the Limits of Your Longing Written by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated and read by Joanna Macy Listen God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,

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Steven Schlafman

Go to the Limits of Your Longing Written by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated and read by Joanna Macy Listen God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

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Steven Schlafman

Go to the Limits of Your Longing Written by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated and read by Joanna Macy Listen God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

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Steven Schlafman

“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing

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Steven Schlafman

Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of what I have believed and done is

“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James

“The mind unanchored in the body is always trying to be something or somebody, the mind is always attempting to control the body: the body exists in i

“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing

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Steven Schlafman

“Find the small continuities that are important when everything else seems to be changing.” —William Bridges

“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing

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Steven Schlafman

“Any person at forty or fifty years of age who is not appalled by some of his or her choices in the earlier decades is either dumb lucky or remains un

“The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderf

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Steven Schlafman

“The mind unanchored in the body is always trying to be something or somebody, the mind is always attempting to control the body: the body exists in i

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Steven Schlafman

Nature is an incomparable guide if you know how to follow her. She is like the needle of the compass pointing to the North, which is most useful...whe

“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.” —Carl Jung

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Steven Schlafman

“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.” —Carl Jung

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Steven Schlafman

“ What would it mean to be done for the day?” —Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals

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Steven Schlafman

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Wha

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Steven Schlafman

“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.” Plato

“We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.” Steve Maraboli

“Slow living is a curious mix of being prepared and being prepared to let go. Caring more and caring less. Saying yes and saying no. Being present and

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” —Pablo Picasso

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Steven Schlafman

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” —Pablo Picasso

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Steven Schlafman
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Steven Schlafman

To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structu

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Steven Schlafman

To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structu

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Steven Schlafman

Nature is an incomparable guide if you know how to follow her. She is like the needle of the compass pointing to the North, which is most useful...whe