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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:20:53 -0400

13 Tips to Help You Discover Your Purpose

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:00:47 -0400

13 Tips to Help You Discover Your Purpose

What is one thing you can do today to support your body?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:06:23 -0400

Learning to Listen to Our Bodies’ Wisdom on TheDailyLove

Collage by Camilla Engman (via Angela Ritchie’s Ace Camps...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:30:54 -0400

Collage by Camilla Engman

(via Angela Ritchie’s Ace Camps - Are ACE CAMPS for you?)

Today: A List

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:58:49 -0400

as inspired by my good friend, Amy.

Today, I woke up a bit later in the day than I had planned.

Today, I meditated for the first time in a week of doing a 21 day challenge. I tried not to feel shame, but pride towards myself that I showed up and practiced today.

Today’s centering thought is “My little changes amount to big benefits.” which I really need to be more conscious of these days. I feel like I am making so many changes, that I am not seeing any results. But how can I with so many changes?

Today, I learned the differences between shame, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment.

Today, I meant to drink more water and eat more protein. However, I did have enough healthy fat.

Today, I did not spend the morning obsessively planning and predicting what was going to happen at work today. I was too focused on being confident.

Today, I splurged on some organic facial products for my difficult and frustrating skin. The technician spent the time to really listen to what I had to say and asked meaningful questions. I am so grateful for that interaction.

Today, I had a moment on the sidewalk where I abruptly turned directions and carelessly bumped into someone. I felt embarrassed, but the person was most concerned that I was lost and needed help.

Today I learned that joy does not bring us gratitude. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.

This weekend is all about crossing things off my to-do list. When I feel stagnant in certain parts...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:31:37 -0400

This weekend is all about crossing things off my to-do list.

When I feel stagnant in certain parts of my life, I need to remember to keep moving in the parts that will allow for movement.

"We must invite our minds to be our allies."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:00:00 -0400

What I took away from today’s meditation.

living-in-luxury: Riad Charai, Marrakech

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:24:00 -0500

living-in-luxury:

Riad Charai, Marrakech

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Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:21:00 -0500

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emilyinternet: Sonder n. the realization that each random...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:52:00 -0500

emilyinternet:

Sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

oh, i love this. (new york is a particularly good city for this.)

one of my favorite things to do when people watching is to picture couples at their weddings. i imagine what they looked like, how they glowed watching each each other take their vows, the smiles plastered to their faces all day. perhaps this is a very specific kind of sonder.

My best teaching advice:

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:04:48 -0500

My best teaching advice::

itssnix:

Love your students. Love them as well as you possibly can.

Ask about their families. Ask again, just in case you forgot or you missed anyone the first time around. And then one more time just for good measure.

Stop class every once in awhile to ask about movies and TV shows and what their…

Ira Glass on storytelling ...and any other creative work, really.

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:38:33 -0500

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story [or piece of art, etc.]. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

Whole interview found here.

"The days aren’t discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:27:01 -0500

“The days aren’t discarded or collected, they are bees
that burned with sweetness or maddened
the sting: the struggle continues,
the journeys go and come between honey and pain.
No, the net of years doesn’t unweave: there is no net.
They don’t fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river.
Sleep doesn’t divide life into halves,
or action, or silence, or honor:
life is like a stone, a single motion,
a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves,
an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal
that climbs or descends burning in your bones.”

- Pablo Neruda

tylerknott: Typewriter Series #281 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:54:09 -0500

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #281 by Tyler Knott Gregson

torontodesign: sign of the times

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:12:00 -0500

torontodesign:

sign of the times

Absolutely stunning work. samanthakeelysmith: Gathering, 50” x...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:37:28 -0500

Absolutely stunning work.

samanthakeelysmith:

Gathering, 50” x 72”, oil, enamel and shellac on canvas, 2013. by Samantha Keely Smith. + detail images

http://www.samanthakeelysmith.com

http://www.facebook.com/SamanthaKeelySmithPainter

caitlinfoster: blue moon, 2012

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:33:46 -0500

caitlinfoster:

blue moon, 2012

“Many of us who have spent years trying to work on...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:00 -0500

“Many of us who have spent years trying to work on improving ourselves often end up being our own worst critics. We judge ourselves harshly if we feel fear or a sense of loss or depression. We feel that ‘with everything we have read and learned, we should know better by now’ and feel as though we have gone backwards in our learning, and can’t figure out where we went wrong. It leaves us wondering what we have missed, or what we have yet to learn to get out of this space. This feeling keeps us in constant search for more information. This is a fallout of the ‘self-help movement’.

If this is you, I’d like to say that first of all, don’t judge yourself for feeling the way you are feeling. Embrace yourself and who you are and where you are at, right now. Remember, you are the sum total of every moment of your life up to this point in time. Embrace it. Accept it. And when we are able to fully embrace and accept it, including accepting the fear, depression, or sadness we are feeling, it is usually followed by a feeling of relief. There is nothing we need to do. Embrace where you are. If you are still feeling heavy with what you are left with even after accepting it, then surrender who you are to the universe. Realize that there is no ‘new information’ or ‘understanding’ out there that you need to pursue. Just surrender. Empty yourself to the universe, or to the god of your understanding, or whatever, and say ‘Here, take me. This is me now. This is who and how I am right now.’ And then there should be this deep feeling of relief.

Anita Moorjani

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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:41:27 -0500

texturism: auld lang syne | lord huron both feet over the...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:40:30 -0500

texturism:

auld lang syne | lord huron

both feet over the threshold. here’s to twenty thirteen! my goodness, let’s do this.