Right and left, or east and west.
Lent, Jeremy. The Patterning Instinct. New York, Prometheus Books, 2017, p. 197.
Episode 92- Creating Space for Creativity
Do you hold a hidden creative calling deep within you?
Jarvis, Chase. Creative Calling. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2019, pp. 23-24.
Episode 91- Rename Your Fears
What if we could confront fear first?
Truman Cooper, Marsha. “Fearing Paris.” Substantial Holdings, Pudding House Publications Chapbook Series, 2002, p. 22.
Episode 90- Life is Gone in a Splash
Take time to praise special places.
Tony Hoagland. Barton Springs. Poetry, Vol. 190, No. 4, July/August, 2007.
Episode 89- Finding the Medicine in Poison
We have the choice to make good from the seemingly destructive.
Chodron, Pema. “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living.” Boston: Shambhala,, 2004. p. 36-37 & 42-43.
Episode 88- To Smell
Smell, mindfully.
Abbey, Edward. “Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.” New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.
Episode 87- To See
Insight meditation teaches us how to truly see.
Paramananda, “A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation.” New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. p.145-146.
Episode 86- A Closer Look at Honesty
Being truthful is more than simply not telling blatant lies.
Adele, Deborah. The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice. Duluth: On-Word Bound Books, LLC, 2009. p. 49-50.
Episode 85- My Mom's Favorite Poem
Change is certain so seize the day.
Frost, Robert. “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” New Hampshire. Henry Holt, 1923.
Episode 84- Room For What Matters
Focus your life around what is most meaningful.
Susanka, Sarah. The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters. New York: Random House Trade Partners, 2007. p.xiii.
Episode 83- The Excitement of Incompetencies
It can be fun to be not so good.
Episode 82- Break It In Your Mind
You can’t lose something that’s already broken.
This Cup Is Already Broken. https://www.tarabrach.com/pt-2-impermanence-awakening-insecurity/
Episode 81- Moon Musings
Get captured by the moon’s gravity.
Montagu. Lady Mary Wortley. A Hymn to the Moon. 1758.
Patterson, Leigh A. Moon Lists: A Guided Journal.” New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2019. p. 5.
Episode 80- Beyond the Border of Your Comfort Zone
Do you zone out, in comfort?
Episode 79- Our Common Sorrow
A practice of letting go.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. “Forgiveness.” The Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier: A Reader’s Edition, edited by William Jolliff, Friends United Press, 2000, p. 228.
Episode 78- Just Say No
A negative sounding construct for a positive outcome.
Sivers, Derek. Anything You Want. New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2015.
Episode 77- To Live or Not To Live with Regret
Find out what author George Saunders regrets most.
Saunders, George. Congratulations, By the Way. New York: Random House, 2014.
Episode 76- Art as a Training for Life
Everyday objects can be experienced deeply as art.
Greif, Mark. Against Everything. “The Concept of Experience.” New York: Vintage Books, 2016. p. 88.
Episode 75- You are Two People
Listen to your heart.
Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.
Episode 74- Graveyard Wallpaper
Peculiar things go unnoticed.