QUOTES
A fingerprint remains the same for a lifetime, even as layers of skin wear away amd are replaced by new ones. Surface patterns reflect deeper structures – layers,…or embedded crystals and fossils, faults and folds – they will change continuously as slow abrasion reveals a slightly different view.
– Margaret W. Carruthers, beach stones text (photographs by Josie Iselin)
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
– T.S. Elliot
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
I wish I could tell you that I have always had a clear sense of my iown self-worth, my inherent dignity as a human being. The truth of the matter is that I needed someone to let me know that I was seen to feel like a human being.
May we live like this. May we see each other for who we are, for what we are. May we face each other, seeing and being seen. Loving and being loved. May we see all of each other. May we see all of us. May we be seen.
– Omid Safi, The Power of Being Seen for Who We Are (https://onbeing.org/blog/omid-safi-the-power-of-being-seen-for-who-we-are/)
Play is the highest form of research.
– Albert Einstein
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
– Leonard Cohen, Anthem
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, You would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced
And coordinated as birdwings.
– Rumi
Meditions & Blogs
TED & TEDx Talks
Books Worth Reading
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change, Start Where You Are – A Guide to Compassionate Living, Welcoming the Unwelcome ~ Pema Chodron
The Anatomy of Change ~ Richard Strozzi Heckler
Wherever You Go, There You Are ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
A Path with Heart, No Time Like the Present ~ Jack Kornfield
Diving in the Inner Ocean ~ Dominic C. Liber
Einstein’s Dreams ~ Alan Lightman
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, The One Life We’re Given ~ Mark Nepo
Awakening – A Paradigm Shift of the Heart ~ Rodney Smith
Through Forests of Every Color ~Joan Sutherland
Inspirations
Photographs and Art:
- Ansel Adams
- Josie Iselin – beach stones, heart stones, sea glass
- Andrew Wyeth
Poetry and Prose:
- John Brandi
- Renee Gregorio
- John O’Donohue
- Mary Oliver
- David Whyte
Music:
- Will Ackerman
- Shawn Colvin
- Aaron Copland
- John Denver
- Earth, Wind, and Fire
- Dan Fogelberg
- Michael Hedges
- Peter Kater
- Joni Mitchell
- James Taylor
Apps & Tools
Calm
Insight Timer
Sounds True
Podcasts
On Being with Krista Tippett
Sounds True
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