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- Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.
from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
“The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.”
from The Tyranny Of Time by noemamag.com
- Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:
"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
M... See more - we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for m... See more
from About
We’re decades deep into the helicopter parenting era. Children have never been healthier or safer, but then, American children have been remarkably healthy and safe for decades longer, there was never any real “stranger danger,” and improvements to child health are the product of improving medical technology, not ever-more-anxious parents.
from You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. by Freddie deBoer
Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of
... See morefrom The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening by Ph.D Judith Blackstone
Offering undivided attention and curiosity not only lowers the temperature of a conversation but can change its outcome
from Why Listening Well Can Make Disagreements Less Damaging by Guy Itzchakov
Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Do you know why they say the grass is always greener on the other side? Because it’s hard to see grass that far away. It isn’t actually greener, it just looks like it because you’re not close enough to see the dead patches and the dog poop. Not only that, but you don’t have to mow that grass. Our own situation always feels worse to us because we’re
... See morefrom How to Enjoy Your Problems by Chelsea Harvey Garner