Hello my beloved subscribers,
I’m often asked what I’m consuming that guides me along this path. I’ll start sharing that here periodically ❤️:
What I’m Reading
What I’m Watching
Thich Nhat Hanh’s biography: I’m in awe of this man’s life and what he did for the peace of our world amidst the suffering and turmoil in his country during the Vietnam war.
Embracing our humanity, Ram Dass lecture: How do we embrace the spiritual while living our human duty? How do we both transcend this reality, and stay grounded in it?
Life Beyond: Chapter 1: few things are more calming for me than the reminder of how small we are in this vast universe. When I feel overwhelm, I watch things like this or simply look up at our sky.
Virtual forest bathing: love having this in the background when I read and write.
House of Dragons: the dragon made a symbolic visit during my solo Aya journey earlier this year, this show is feeling auspiciously resonant.
What I’m Contemplating
Suffering and happiness inter-are. Like left and right, or hot and cold. Identical in nature, differing in degree. The lotus must grow from the mud. - Thich Nhat Hanh
My freedom was going to lie in the creative tension to simultaneously see the perfection in all that is, and also experience the pain. To see that there’s nothing to do, yet work as hard as I could to relieve suffering. To see it was all a dream, and still live within the reality. In order to do this, I needed to learn the fullness of the human heart. - Ram Dass
The game is not to get high, the game is to be free. And being free includes living the highs and lows until you’re no more attached to your high than you are to your low. There it all is, the whole panorama of Maya. There’s a terrible habit of getting holy too fast. Intellectually we know what holy is, and we do it from outside in. You can’t do this game from outside in, your inner voice is going to keep being horrified by your hypocrisy. When you’re afraid of triggers and emotions, you push them away, and so they keep clinging. Instead, be bored or sad or angry fully, then it goes away. The holy is unknowable, unseeable, only be-able. - Ram Dass
What I’m Listening To
What I’m Using
Banyan Botanicals ayurvedic natural supplements
Keap Candles: sustainable and long-lasting candles with wonderful natural scents
Alive Water: fresh spring water delivered biweekly
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