Dr. Vivek Murthy, 21st Surgeon General of the United States and a Yogi Bryan, a wild man meditator we recently discovered, share their quick meditations for regaining connection and calm. Similar practices, VERY different approaches.
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When I Deleted My News Feed My Day Got Longer and Calmer
Inspired by Farhad Manjoo’s revelatory NY Times article, I deleted the news feed on my phone to see if I could “have what Manjoo was having”: more free time, and a clearer head.
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How to Practice, Just About Anything (+ Allen Ginzberg)
This cool little video WOKE US UP recently about something we do daily. Practice. We realize now, we don’t always “get” the best way to do it, or the essential piece that we are missing.
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gary snyder ‘don’t… be victimized by your lesser talents’
We were reading a packed-full-of-revelations1992 interview with poet Gary Snyder when we came across this amazing, of-the-cuff line. What a concept! The context is his answer to the question about whether he’d work as Secretary of the Interior or other political post if asked: I’ve never thought seriously about that question. Probably not, although I am foolish…
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