Jack Kornfield on patience. No more needs to be said, just watch the video and attend to your breathing. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2428
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#tds2427 Virtuous Laziness
Now here is a question worth asking: Do you really need to be doing more than you already are? Today, take time to read this funny and thought provoking article on the downsides of seeking to become more and more productive: “My personal rule is that if you aren’t quite certain that a certain action… Read more »
#tds2426 Beauty remains in misfortune
“Beauty remains, even in misfortune,” Anne Frank wrote. “If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.” “Here there was only sky, and a stillness made audible by the brittle grass. Emptiness was so perfect all around me that I felt a part of it, empty myself; there… Read more »
#tds2425 What if we could all go to the woods…
…and live deliberately? We have been following this game for ages and it has now finally arrived. It seems to have won many awards since its launch. From the blurb: “Walden, a game is an exploratory narrative and open world simulation of the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant… Read more »
#tds2423 The blank Page
“However, for me, the blank page is less about writing and more about finding something valuable in the million thoughts I have each day. We all have ideas that swirl and gather, a murmuration of emotions driven by experiences and feelings. To capture a single thought and to let it rest and be seen, is… Read more »
#tds2422 How the metaphor of “switchbacks” can offer us wisdom
Today, we use the metaphor of switchbacks to reflect on life obstacles. They can offer us a way to slow down and learn, though we do not always welcome the enforced sideways pause. In “A report from the Slow Lane”, David Geoff tells us: “Switchbacks make my life better, enriching me, keeping me on the… Read more »
#tds2421 The art of listening
Today, take time to read Erich Fromm on the Art of listening. (click to view the book via Google books) The visual above shows his rules for the art of listening. Choose one or two conversations today and apply his rules. Notice how it impact your relationship and importantly how the art of listening to… Read more »
#tds2420 A journey of one inch
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#tds2419 Do we even know what it means to find ‘common cause’ with place?
Wendell Berry has featured here on the still web a few times, his beautiful and heartbreaking poems brings us face to face with our complicity in destroying the world we live in. In this video he speaks to his ideas about how to be in the world, and how searching for The Big Individual Solution… Read more »
#tds2418 Being in the midst of everything
Today, we practice letting go and ‘just being in the midst of everything’. It may not all be pleasant, it may not all be unpleasant. Can we just be with whatever arises and fades away in each moment? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2418
#tds2417 Attending to monotony
Today, take time to attend to that which is “mono-tone” in your day. We often associate the words tedious or boring to monotony but its origin is more to do with sameness than boredom. In what useful ways is a sunrise monotonous? What can repeating events give us to encourage stillness in our monkey minds?… Read more »
#tds2416 Is your busyness just existential reassurance?
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.” TIM KREIDER tl;dr – Book yourself some time to be idle today. Enjoy. “Idleness is not just a vacation,… Read more »
