Take a walk, take your phone or camera and find a few unusual (according to your own definition of the term) objects – take a photo, enjoy the search! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds208
Posts By: Mariana
#tds207 Voluntary Poverty for a quiet life?
“We can’t even imagine that poverty might be the result of an intelligent and skilled person’s free choice based on a rational evaluation of costs and benefits. It might sincerely be possible for someone to decide not to take the better paid job, not to publish another book, not to seek high office – and… Read more »
#tds206 Morning stillness, take a photo
Take time this morning to find stillness in your surroundings (preferably outside) , take a photo. Keep that photo near on your desk for today. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds206
#tds205 Sorry, I am Sabbath observant
“The rules have taken time to define, but here is where they stand: No phone and no computer. Television is allowed, but no streaming because it would require a phone or computer. No spending money (except occasionally coffee) and no transportation other than my own two feet. The underlying point is simple—no working.” Read this… Read more »
#tds204 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 »
#tds203 Remember the bad
Today take time to….remember the Bad! Remembering hard times you once experienced in parallel with how far you have come can set up an explicit contrast in your mind, and this contrast may give you a source for gratefulness. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds203
#tds202 A precious human life
Today find time to contemplate the preciousness of life and all that happens in it. Our life is fragile and unique and the beat of a heart is all that separates life from death. What can we do today to make sure we do not squander this precious gift of life? Sometimes it is as simple… Read more »
#tds201 Simplify, Simplify, Simplify…
Take an honest inventory of what’s in your life. Ask yourself if you need all of the things that occupy your attention. Do things like technology or possessions add value or keep you from focusing on what’s important? Practice just holding the question in the background as you go through your day. When we approach our own… Read more »
#tds200 Let’s get physical
A wonderful book review in The Independent.The book? ‘A Philosophy of Walking’ by Frédéric Gros. It explores how walking and other physical activities can offer us ‘escape from our digital lives’. Today, print the article, find a path, walk it and then sit down to enjoy the article after your walk. From the introduction: “Every… Read more »
#tds199 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 »
#tds198 Mindfulness is so not-rubbish…
“…so much a crucial foundation of a fulfilling life – that you shouldn’t relegate it to the status of a minor hobby, something to be done with your downtime.”Oliver Burkeman Take time to read the article today. Resist the temptation to click on the many mindfulness resources it offers. Stay with the article and read… Read more »
#tds197 A quiet spot on the web
“5-minute meditation is a minimalist, one-shot guided meditation routine on the web. The clean layout and total silence beat the clutter and chaos of youtube, and you can set breathing rate and color scheme to suit your personal level of vibrating news junkie rage” Boing Boing Click on the image to go to the site… Read more »
