“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 »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2714 Are you introverted or just rude?
“Years ago, I was habitually late. “I can’t help it!” I declared to an expert in time management (I’d turned my effort to reform into a magazine article, as writers do, which gave me the excuse to seek professional help). “Have you ever missed a plane?” she asked. I had not. “Then you can help it…. Read more »
#tds2713 Do your daily gratitudes
“Because when we don’t take the time each day to count our Gratitudes, our Ingratitudes rush right in and take over. And then we are off to the fucking races, are we not? Life can seem to be nothing but the accretion of the many unfortunate, heartbreaking, humiliating things that happen to us, until we… Read more »
#tds2712 Interconnected memories
“No man is an island: we act together, think together and even remember together. Elderly couples have interconnected memory systems, working together to deftly remember their shared past. New research shows that platonic friends see themselves similarly. […] Memory interdependence was the single best predictor of friendship quality, more even than relationship length or a… Read more »
#tds2711 Who’s in the room?
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#tds2710 How is your heart doing?
“How is the state of your heart today? Let us insist on a type of human-to-human connection where when one of us responds by saying, “I am just so busy,” we can follow up by saying, “I know, love. We all are. But I want to know how your heart is doing.”” The disease of being… Read more »
#tds2709 …we are only going to know how to be lonely
“If we do not know how to be alone, we are only going to know how to be lonely’ concludes the video we are offering for reflection today. Do you recognise what the video speak to in your own social media life? Or have you succeeded in making a productive and healthy use of social… Read more »
#tds2707 Do you Phubb your friends and family? Don’t.
“Phubbing is the practice of snubbing others in favor of our mobile phones. We’ve all been there, as either victim or perpetrator. We may no longer even notice when we’ve been phubbed (or are phubbing), it has become such a normal part of life. However, research studies are revealing the profound impact phubbing can have on… Read more »
#tds2706 Soundscape Ecology for stillness
“First, some basics. A soundscape essentially consists of three sources: the “geophony,” or the non-biological sounds of any habitat, such as the wind in the trees and the waves on the beach; the “biophony,” or the collective sound organisms make in their collective wild habit; and the “anthrophony,” which is the sound humans make. ”… Read more »
#tds2705 The bench
Today, just take 5 minutes to watch this. Trust us. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2705
#tds2704 Everyday is borrowed
Do you keep a quotes journal? You could start one today. Cherry-picking the words of others expresses something about ourselves and over time a quotes journal can support moment of stillness in your life. Once compiled, you can just stop and read a few pages of your quotes journal each day. May be this will… Read more »
#tds2703 The Inner World Is a Great, Undiscovered Terrain
“The point of gathering stillness is not to enrich the sanctuary or the mountaintop, but to bring that reality into the motion, the commotion, of the world.” Pico Iyer Just under 10 minutes of stillness gathering – will you give yourself that time? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag… Read more »
