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The Sounds of Silence

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March 17, 2023

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The Sounds of Silence

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

– Graham Greene –

The Sounds of Silence

“When I was a sixteen-year-old naturalist in training, we were instructed to sit in the forest and wait for the return of something called the baseline symphony. The baseline symphony was the music of a landscape at ease–the confluence of insect, bird, and animal song, underscored by wind and water. The dynamics of that symphony shifted as day progressed into night. There were brief caesuras, but it did not fall silent for long except in the case of a disturbance. Silence signaled the onset of weather events, a stalking predator, the encroachment of loggers, or the footfalls of a teenager with punk rock looping loudly in her brain. As I picked down the forest path, an unnatural quiet fell, broken only by the occasional bird alarm. With practice, I learned to still my mind and body long enough for the baseline symphony to return…” Lisa Wells explores the many shades of silence and loss in this poignant piece. { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out, “The Mystery of Silence,” a short excerpt from Dorothy Hunt.

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You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants

This week’s inspiring video: You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants
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Mar 16, 2023
You Don't Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants

You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants

Through the use of vivid storytelling the journalist Shankar Vedantam explains the impact of what he terms the "illusion of continuity", the belief that our future selves will share the same perspectives and views as our current selves. He points out that "on an ongoing basis, you are constantly becoming a new person." This creates practical challenges in terms of making promises for our future self and enacting laws that seem enlightened now which may seem archaic in the future. He offers three-fold advice tro handle these challenges: stay curious, practice humility, and be brave.
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Shay Beider: Resilience is Rooted in Source

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March 16, 2023

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Shay Beider: Resilience is Rooted in Source

You want resilience in healing? It comes from Source. Resilience is rooted in Source.

– Shay Beider –

Shay Beider: Resilience is Rooted in Source

Over the last two decades Shay Beider has done pioneering work in integrative medicine through her non-profit organization, Integrative Touch, that enhances well-being, minimizes suffering and facilitates healing for children with special medical needs and their families.”Essentially, our entire role as a team is to listen with every little bit of our capacity. And so that’s not just listening with our ears. It’s taking in information on every single level, with our heart, our energetic body, through our mental body, physical, emotional, psychological, psychic, spiritual. Like every little aspect of self is trying to manifest an opening and an awakening to what is happening right here, right now. And how do I/we support it. When you have a team of people that are fully embodying that level of presence and deep listening, then the inner intelligence from that child, from that family — the inner intelligence that already knows how to heal — it just starts to guide and direct. We actually aren’t really doing anything. We’re in an undoing. We’re in a state of just following. You move into the river and the river shows you where she wants to take you.” Learn more about her remarkable work in this in-depth interview. { read more }

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Separation Without Separateness: A Day That Changed My Life

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March 15, 2023

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Separation Without Separateness: A Day That Changed My Life

Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.

– David Bohm –

Separation Without Separateness: A Day That Changed My Life

“I had been living in London. It was Sunday, July 27, 1980…a day that changed my life forever. I got up before dawn and went for a long, slow, easy run in Hyde Park. When I returned, I picked up the Sunday Times and went into my flat. After showering, I was thumbing through the newspaper, and when I got to page fourteen, I saw a headline in the education section: “How the Universe Hangs Together”. There was a picture of Dr. David Bohm, Professor of Theoretical Physics at London’s Birbeck College, with a caption underneath: “Bohm and his Algebra of Algebras: Religion is Wholeness.” I knew at that moment that this article was speaking to me and that I needed to meet Dr. Bohm.” { read more }

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On Writing More Clearly

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March 14, 2023

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On Writing More Clearly

Writing isn’t a conveyer belt bearing the reader to “the point” at the end of the piece, where the meaning will be revealed. Good writing is significant everywhere, Delightful everywhere.

– Verlyn Klinkenborg –

On Writing More Clearly

“Here, in short, is what I want to tell you.

Know what each sentence says,

What it doesnt say,

And what it implies.

Of these, the hardest is knowing what each sentence actually says.”

Verlyn Klinkenborg teaches creative writing at Yale and is a former member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he shares more in this excerpt from his book, “Several Short Sentences About Writing.” { read more }

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The Grand Predicament

Weekly excerpt to help us remember the sacred.

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The Grand Predicament

–Nic Askew

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2613.jpgA fear of not belonging drives much of what we do and how we are.

Unknowingly it can define the experience of a life.

Most of us live with an underlying sense that we are not yet enough.

And assume that until we are we cannot truly belong.

We assume that we must become a better version of ourself.

But we’re never quite enough in this relentless pursuit of belonging.

We are lost to a never ending self improvement.

Might we have been looking out there when all along it had been within?

Might we already be the version we’d been seeking?

Beyond the endless game of fixing what is seemingly broken there exists a profound experience of knowing that there is no one to fix.

That we are enough as we are. And that we belong without condition.

Yet we cannot seek and hope to find this. As its nature is to find us. And to consume us with no doubt.

No one can teach us this. We cannot learn this.

In a moment of surrender. In a moment of not seeking, the experience can be re-known.

Nothing changes but everything is somehow different.

And then everything begins its transformation.

Liberation, peace and all that follows is the work of Inner View.

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What Happens in Mindfulness

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What Happens in Mindfulness

Attention and surrender need to be in balance. They are the joysticks you use to navigate the cosmos.

– Cynthia Bourgeault –

What Happens in Mindfulness

“Like mom and apple pie, mindfulness has an unassailable reputation for virtue and wholesomeness. But what actually goes on in the brain and the psyche to deliver the goods? What are we actually signing up for when we embrace a path of mindfulness? In this important new book John Teasdale deftly weaves a course between the Scylla of cognitive science and the Charybdis of classic spiritual teaching to create a clear and compelling understanding of how mindfulness actually works to support the deep, unitive transformation of mind and heart traditionally known as awakening or enlightenment.” Cynthia Bourgeault reviews the book, “What Happens in Mindfulness,” by her student, and cognitive scientist, John Teasdale. { read more }

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Zen TV

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Zen TV

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

– Shunryu Suzuki –

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“How many of you know how to watch television?” I asked my class one day. After a few bewildered and silent moments, slowly, one by one, everyone haltingly raised their hands. We soon acknowledged that we were all ‘experts,’ as Harold Garfinkle would say, in the practice of ‘watching television.'”This short excerpt by Bernard McGrane provides a profound thought experiment that can help us “wake up” to what might be really going on when we turn on the television.

Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

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Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

– C.S. Lewis –

Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

“You will say to me that time passeth, that What Was is now only memory, that we cannot reclaim or resurrect that which is inarguably past, but I am going to quibble about this, and quiz and question you hard and close, for I dont even have to shut my eyes and it is six in the morning, long ago and right now, far away and right here, and it is snowing heavily, and there is a silvery shiver to the world, and the house is silent except for how it sighs sometimes when it remembers the forest it used to be, and I am huddled deep under four blankets, and I know without even opening my eyes that everyone else in the house is asleep, for when you are a child you have the most extraordinary senses, and can tell the color of a bird by its song, and the day of the week by the thrum of the rain, and how amused or annoyed your dad is by the tilt of his hat. Why do we not sing these things as miracles?” More from Brian Doyle in this marvelous piece. { read more }

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IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

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IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves.

– Dan Siegel –

IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

“We may have a mental understanding that all of life is one inseparable whole, yet how do we actually feel into this reality? And how do we relate to others and the world from this felt awareness? Dr. Daniel J. Siegel is a visionary creative thinker, professor, and founder of the field of interpersonal neurobiology. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Siegel about his book IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging. They explore the direct experience of being the whole of life; interconnection versus intraconnection; honoring the inner, the inter, and the intra; E. O. Wilson’s concept of consilience; the promotion of linkages as the basis of well-being; quantum physics and the study of energy; the Wheel of Awareness practice; the three-pillar practice of focused attention, opening awareness, and building kind intention; the power of wandering and relaxing the flimsy fantasy of certainty; our survival instincts and the investment in being separate; how mindfulness practice interrupts the anticipatory brain and brings us back to presence; the multiple pandemics of our time, and the lie that our identity is only in the solo self; how the tapestry of reality is of love and connection; seeing yourself as a verb instead of a noun; pervasive leadership, and how were all called to assist in the Great Turning; and more.” { read more }

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