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The philosopher Andrew Taggart believes that crisis moments lead to “existential openings” that force us to grapple with the deepest questions about life.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Being awake is less a particular type of experience than it’s simply a mode of being – an orientation to self, to unfolding life.
Jan Frazier • Love Incarnate: Twenty Years After Awakening
It does not have to be a self-absorbed way of being. On the contrary, it is nurturing the centre from which we can teach in a quiet kind of listening, without the commentary of a busy mind.
Joanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevit... See more
Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
Being is what happens when you stop doing. Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.
Patrick Rhone • Keeping It Straight
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.