“Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.” How will you cultivate the gift of gratefulness for this unique day life has given you, today? Show… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds590 Learn to become ‘unworlded’
Take time to practice passage meditation with this poem by Kenneth White and find stillness in your day today: A High Blue Day in Scalpay This is the summit of contemplation and no art can touch it blue, so blue, the far out archipelago and the sea shimmering, shimmering no art can touch it, the… Read more »
#tds589 An exercise in Stillness
This video is 16 seconds long. How long can you give yourself to watch it, over and over until you can join the little boy in that precious smile? Thank you, internet. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds589
#tds588 The Being underneath the thinker
You can read the quote quickly, may be share it on Facebook and move on with your day. Or…Pause. Find a quiet space in mind and environment and choose a short sentence from this quote to memorise and carry with you through your day. We liked ‘The being underneath the thinker’. What might a day… Read more »
#tds587 Solitude is the soul’s holiday
“Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.” Katrina Kenison Find a quiet spot, may be even print the article linked to above or use a reading app for no distractions, make a favourite drink and savour Katrina’s words….‘there comes a moment.’ Tweet your… Read more »
#tds586 Idle Pleasure of the day: Wait for the tea to brew
“Enforced idleness is a rare treat. Those brief moments in life where for one reason or another you are forced to just stop and think. In waiting rooms, queuing, for example, or even just sitting on a train. Waiting for the tea to brew is one of such moments. It doesn’t offer enough time to… Read more »
#tds585 Want to help someone? Shut up and listen
‘…everything we touched, we killed.’ From the blurb: “When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help, and… Read more »
#tds584 Alone
Find the stillness in ‘alone’, be like the moon or the ash tree. Just for a while. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds584
#tds583 Can you hear the whispers of the gods?
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Take time to read ‘Finding Stillness’ by Leo Babauta choose one or two of his suggestion to try out today. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds583
#tds582 Learn meditation through the art of gaming
“Connecting the dots between gaming, meditation, and flow has led to gamified meditation training apps. It can be easy to dismiss these apps as they’re not as “spiritual” as meditating on the grass by the sea with a guru, nor are they as fun as crushing candy on the train to work. They don’t fit… Read more »
#tds581 Lethargic or fructifying boredom today?
“And there is, of course, bad boredom. The good type motivates you to see what can come of it: “fructifying boredom,” as the philosopher Bertrand Russell called it. The bad type, in contrast, tires you, makes you feel like you can’t be bothered to do anything. (It has a name too: lethargic boredom.)A crucial part… Read more »
#tds580 Honesty for empathy
“Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, our world, or our self.” David Whyte Are you feeling brave enough to spend 10 minutes with human grief? From the Vimeo site: “Mark Pellington’s new film project, Honesty, is inspired by poet David Whyte’s… Read more »
