What Full Attention Feels, Looks, and Sounds Like
"It felt like my senses were being used in a way that I ignore them a lot."
Learn How To Respond Wisely
"The proposition here is not that you should be rendered by mindfulness into some lifeless, nonjudgmental blog. The proposition is that you should learn how to respond wisely to things that happen to you rather than just reacting blindly."
~ Dan Harris
Being Called Beautiful
"There is so much beauty in the world. If you blink, you'll miss it."
This is Your Chance
Forget everything you've ever done.
Make no comparisons. Simply listen.
The Feeling of Being Engaged by a Story
Readers like stories when they feel engaged by them. Whether the story is pleasant, neutral or unpleasant matter doesn’t really matter. Readers simply enjoy the feeling of being engaged by a story.
What If There's More to Life than Just Pleasure?
"Is there inherent value in real experiences, whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains?"
Who Would You Be?
"Isn't it funny how no baby is born racist, yet every baby cries when they hear the cries of another. No matter the gender, culture, or color — proving that, deep down, we were meant to connect and care for each other."
~ Prince Ea
Our Inner Lives Become Impoverished
"My fear is that as we stop defending this interior space, we'll start to do things and think things and censor our very inner life in a way that doesn't cause us any anxiety. The real cost of surveillance is that our inner lives become impoverished.
~ Walter Kirn
Bird Sounds Visualised
"Bird sounds captured using a digital audio recorder and fed into a computer to activate particle effects."
Down My Arms, A Thousand Satellites
down my arms, a thousand satellites
suddenly discover signs of life
Cooperating & Homemaking
Homemaking is creating an environment in which learning is possible.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Feeling It for Yourself
"If I could explain what the one biggest shift has been from when I was 17 and suicidal to today and 22 and a lot healthier place, it's just that before I used to try to run away from my pain and tell no one about it, and now I try and run right into it and tell the people closest to me about it."
~ Kevin Breel
So Simple We Don't Want to Believe It
“The trouble with explaining this work is that it is so simple that we don’t want to believe it."
~ Trudy Goodman
It Ain't Easy
"I'll never be the fastest teenager, and I'm okay with that. It doesn't matter if I'm better or worse than someone. It just matters that in a year from now, I'm stronger, I'm faster, and I'm a better person."
~ Cole Cooper
Lost within the Space Between
"Finding the dickhead inside [lead to] actually finding quite a liberation."
~ Damien Rice
Follow Your Contribution
“Don’t follow your passion. What you take out of the world...is much less important than what you put into the world. Follow your contribution instead. Find the thing you’re great at, put that into the world, contribute to others, help the world be better.”
~ Ben Horowitz