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May 31, 2021

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Love Letters from Seaweed

“Love Letters from Seaweed was created during the summer months I spent exploring mid-Coast Maine. Each day just before sunrise, I biked to Birch Point Beach to witness the shores changing topography and the traces of ocean life spilled by the tide. Intrigued, I photographed spontaneous configurations of seaweed and natural artifacts in unworldly colors, brought together by spume and sand.” Visual artist Katherine Minott shares more. { read more }

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“Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea” is a line from this stunning short poem by A.S.J. Tessimond, titled “Daydream.” Read it here. What does it evoke in you? { more }

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May 30, 2021

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To Become a Better Leader, Question Your Assumptions

“When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, he wanted to make the case for why executives should reconsider their approaches to how to manage people in a modern workplace and embrace new ideas, based on systematic evidence.” Here he discusses why it’s important for leaders to question their assumptions around engagement and communication at work. { read more }

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This week, practice acknowledging your shortcomings and getting curious about perspectives that differ from yours.

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May 29, 2021

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Rumi, Grace & Human Friendship

Tami Simon speaks with Coleman Barks– a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi– about the extraordinary friendship between Rumi and his teacher Shams Tabrizi. { read more }

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For more inspiration, here is a verse by Rumi, “The Root of the Root of Yourself.” { more }

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Last month, on a couple day notice, we hosted an interfaith prayer circle for India. We didn’t know what would emerge but 1300 of you from 43 countries signed on to co-create a profoundly sacred space. If “faith is a withholding of conclusion so we allow what-is to arise” (Adyashanti), it was so moving to see how such deep faith brought us to the doorsteps of our innate compassion and connection. Seeing the long list of prayer requests, all kinds of open-hearted circles started flowing

May 28, 2021

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Asha Gond at the Skating World Championships

Change means movement. If you want change you have to disrupt something. See how one skateboarding park in a rural Indian village rippled out into changes in gender restrictions, caste restrictions and poverty restrictions through the voices of Ulrike Reinhard, the founder of the skateboarding park, and Asha Gond, a young member of the tribal community in the village of Janwaar. { read more }

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Where might you be able to create the movement of change and disrupt the status quo in your own community? How might you channel the energy of rebellion in a positive direction?

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Asha Gond at the Skating World Championships in Nanjing

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May 27, 2021

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We’re Gonna Carry That Weight A Long Time

“All houses have memory. Life’s big occasions–the triumphs and heartbreak–drift through like smoke, leaving barely a trace. It’s the small moments they remember: the hollow at the turn of the stair, the scratches around the keyhole, or wood darkened by touch. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” wrote Annie Dillard, and the houses we spend them in record it all.” { read more }

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Reflect on the different homes you have lived in and how they have shaped your life.

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May 26, 2021

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Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People

“This little book, written during the last months of peace, goes to press in the first weeks of the great war. Many will feel that in such a time of conflict and horror, when only the most ignorant, disloyal, or apathetic can hope for quietness of mind, a book which deals with that which is called the “contemplative” attitude to existence is wholly out of place. So obvious, indeed, is this point of view, that I had at first thought of postponing its publication. On the one hand, it seems as though the dreams of a spiritual renaissance, which promised so fairly but a little time ago, had perished in the sudden explosion of brute force. On the other hand, the thoughts of the English race are now turned, and rightly, towards the most concrete forms of action–struggle and endurance, practical sacrifices, difficult and long-continued effort–rather than towards the passive attitude of self-surrender which is all that the practice of mysticism seems, at first sight, to demand.” Evelyn Underhill’s book, ‘Practical Mysticism’ was first published in 1915, and is now a classic in the field. { read more }

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What practices help you ‘cleanse’ the doors of perception? Have you experienced glimpses of the infinite on your own path?

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May 25, 2021

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Finding Time: Slowness is an Act of Resistance

“The four horseman of my Apocalypse are called Efficiency, Convenience, Profitability, and Security, and in their names, crimes against poetry, pleasure, sociability, and the very largeness of the world are daily, hourly, constantly carried out. These marauding horsemen are deployed by technophiles, advertisers, and profiteers to assault the nameless pleasures and meanings that knit together our lives and expand our horizons.” In this lyrical, thought-provoking essay Rebecca Solnit discusses what we lose with modernity’s speed — and what can be reclaimed by a return to slowness. { read more }

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Today make a conscious effort to slow down and savor the moments.

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