This morning we came across extraordinary words from Carl Jung. They describe a wholeness of experience that antidotes the very modern idea that we are each self-contained. Soon after, a Mary Oliver poem echoed it…
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Van Gogh and Gary Snyder Teach “Tree Intensity of Mind”
Recently, the actual living trees that were the subject of van Gogh’s last painting in 1890 were discovered near the small French town where he lived. A photograph of the trees superimposed with the painting brings to life Gary Snyder’s idea of “tree intensity of mind”, and amplifies our own experience mightily.
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Opened at Random: Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
This morning we opened Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams at random and found this…
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Clarifying Questions to Start Every Day
Over the past few months at Swiss-Miss, we found two related ideas that really hit home and made us think hard about what we really want.
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2 Essential Steps to Completing Projects Close to Your Heart
(Video link here.) We love the Helio Sequence’s trippy, beautiful, psychedelic-ish animated video more for the visuals than for the music. Turn the sound off and you have a wordless meditation on the inventive, imaginative mind and the many unexpected connections that occur in the creative process. It reminds us of the many ideas we have for…
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mailbox key earrings (from Fuad’s dream)
I was walking across 125th Street in Harlem the other day and noticed a guy standing outside of a store, wearing really surprising earrings in one ear. “Wow, cool earrings” I said, “Did you make them?” “Yeah, and they’ve got a story…” He said with a smile. He told me he dreamed them, dreamed of…
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