Steven Schlafman
@schlaf
Steven Schlafman
The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
instagram.com"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more
Wisdom and
@schlaf An all time favorite quote of mine
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit on a bench with a pretty woman for an hour and it feels like a minute. That’s relativity”
Einstein
Andy Cloydx.comTo 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 structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.
—Krishnamurti
quotes and
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James
embodiment and
Emotional competence requires • the capacity to feel our emotions, so that we are aware when we are experiencing stress; • the ability to express our emotions effectively and thereby to assert our needs and to maintain the integrity of our emotional boundaries; • the facility to distinguish between psychological reactions that are pertinent to the... See more
Passage and
“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing it requires a biological process of establishing new default patterns in our neurological and muscular systems.”
—Doug Sillsbee, Presence Based Coaching
Change and