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June 28, 2021

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Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence Now

“Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist, science journalist, and the author of the books Emotional Intelligence (over 5 million copies in print in 40 languages), Social Intelligence, and Ecological Intelligence. Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Dan about the insights in his landmark book, Emotional Intelligence, and where weve come since its publication in 1995. They discuss the physiology and origin of emotions; the relationship between thought and emotion; constructive worry versus destructive worry; self-awareness and the practices that support it; temporary states versus abiding traits; the four domains of emotional intelligence; perseverance, drive, and high performance; cultivating unflappable equanimity; and more.” { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out this passage by Daniel Goleman, “Attunement: An Agendaless Presence.” { more }

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June 27, 2021

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Echoes of the Invisible

A blind man runs alone through Death Valley. Journalist Paul Salopek walks 21,000 miles across the world to retrace our ancestor’s migration, manifesting “slow journalism.” Science writer Anil Ananthaswamy seeks out the silent places on earth where “extreme physics” is being done both by cosmologists and monks. Photographer Rachel Sussman struggles to capture the oldest living organisms on the planet, while astronomers and physicists — from the Atacama Desert in Chile to the Hadron Supercollider on the Swiss/French border — attempt to penetrate the furthest depths of space and time. These ambitious explorers journeying to the Earth’s furthest reaches seeking in part to uncover their deepest inner reaches are connected by a tireless search to touch the deep silence of the human heart in a world of noise and division. Such are among the mosaic of profound quests interwoven in the film, Echoes of the Invisible, a stunning new documentary that is as much a meditation and prayer as it is a film. Learn more in this interview with Steve Elkins, the film’s director. { read more }

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Join a special call with Steve Elkins next week,” Seeing the Invisible: The Search for Stillness and Silence in the Digital Age.” More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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June 26, 2021

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The Extra Mile

At 85 years old, Oom Hollie embodies the spirit of Ubuntu, “I am who I am because of who we are.” Known as The Iron Man because of the strength and resilience of his body, mind and spirit, he and his family suffered great loss many years ago. With the support of their community they were able to move forward and thrive. He is in love with the land and with growing food, not for profit but to share it with others. He lives gratefully each day motivated by an awareness that “one man’s happiness is another’s and one man’s loss is another’s.” { read more }

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Perform a selfless act today with no expectation of acknowledgement. How did it feel?

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June 25, 2021

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A Blessing for A Baby Coming Into This World

“Dear, dear tiny being before you are fully human,
remember the ether from which you came.
Hearken to that terrible squeeze
between the womb and the world,
that journey you willed and that willed you.

Then live your wild human time dancing
and grounded in the grand.”

Read on for the rest of a lovely poem written by poet gardener, Susan Kornfeld, to a bless a new baby on her way into this world. { read more }

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Consider what your words of blessing might be to a baby soon to be born.

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June 24, 2021

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Lament for Syria: A Young Poet Looks Back

“I wrote about all my memories: how I woke up in the morning to my grandmother drinking coffee next to the jasmine tree listening to the music of the Lebanese singer Fairuz. I wrote about how my siblings and I walked to school with our neighbors and how we saw a boy smoking and then hiding the cigarette from his older brother.
I didn’t want Syria to be known just for its war. I wanted to communicate the colors, smells and complexion of my country and our customs. All of this stuck in my memory, and I realized how suddenly my life had been turned upside down and inside out since I left Syria. My message is simple; I want love and peace to prevail in my country and it to be free of war.” Amineh Abou Kerech’s poem ‘Lament for Syria’ was awarded United Kingdoms Betjeman Poetry Prize in 2017 when she was just thirteen. In February this year she shared the poem at a United Nations event focused on the trauma inflicted on children in times of conflict. Read her poignant poem, and learn more about her journey here. { read more }

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What childhood memories do you carry of your own homeland? Take a moment to capture them on paper in stream of consciousness mode. Try not to overthink it and see what emerges.

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June 23, 2021

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The Frightfully Wondrous Experience of Being Here

Ra Avis didn’t call herself a writer till she was accused of the crime that would eventually result in 437 days of incarceration. In the four years between the accusation and the handcuffs, after a friendly push from her husband–a writer himself–she started a blog and named it Rarasaur (frightfully wondrous things happen here). It became a space for writing about love and grace and grief, and won many awards for being gentle-spoken and insistently hopeful. In May of 2015, she wrote a goodbye post on the blog, for the first time alluding to the case that had followed her around for years. She was in jail just a few days later… In May of 2016, with just a few months of a sentence left to serve, Ra’s beloved husband, Dave, passed away. Today, Ra works with Initiate Justice, a non-profit organization in California that fights to end mass incarceration by activating the power of the people directly impacted by it. People like her…She continues to write about love and grace and grief, and to touch the lives of friends and strangers alike with her realness– and radical capacity to care. { read more }

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Join an Awakin Call this Saturday with Ra Avis. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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June 22, 2021

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Donella Meadows: Dancing with Systems

“We can never fully understand our world, not in the way our reductionistic science has led us to expect. Our science itself, from quantum theory to the mathematics of chaos, leads us into irreducible uncertainty. For any objective other than the most trivial, we can’t optimize; we do’nt even know what to optimize. We cant keep track of everything. We can’t find a proper, sustainable relationship to nature, each other, or the institutions we create, if we try to do it from the role of omniscient conqueror. For those who stake their identity on the role of omniscient conqueror, the uncertainty exposed by systems thinking is hard to take. If you can’t understand, predict, and control, what is there to do?” Influential environmentalist, farmer and writer Donella Meadows explores this question in one of her many, thought-provoking pieces here. { read more }

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Check out these Systems Thinking resources complied by the Donella Meadows Project. { more }

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