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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... quite sure it needs more. It could be stronger. It could say more clearly what I want to say. It could be more elegant. But the truth is, not only am I out of time, I am out of the emotional energy ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... literature of all traditions. We must drop the small self’s need to be in charge, to figure things out, to manage situations. When we do, we have access to a deeper clarity, wisdom, and truth. We move ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... This is what aspiring writers do. And you don’t need a teacher to help you do it. If this is true, you may be asking, why have you written a book of prompts? Well, to tell the truth, this book is as ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... of those new to yoga who think they need a degree of agility to do the poses. No, he says. You adjust as necessary. You breathe. You get focused. Anyone can do the practice because it’s your private ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
I know of no single thing more conducive to great harm than the unrestrained mind. – the Buddha I’m wondering if I need to stop reading for a while. Every day for the last twenty years or ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... Maybe you need to take a break. Maybe you need a Snickers bar. Maybe you need to ease up a bit and trust emergence. Same thing when those feelings of inadequacy come up, as they are sure to do. ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I'm paying attention. There are issues in life—our life lessons—that simply will not be dispatched. Pema Chodron says, “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” And ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... is a great disappointment. I’m not sure, though, that means I need to lower my standards. What happens when you really get how common and ordinary you are and yet you go ahead and aim for the best anyway? ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... struck by Schaden’s notion that culture’s definition of “success” actually creates one of the biggest barriers to true innovation. He says we need to encourage thinkers to move toward “significance” not ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... with them in the dark. I’ve awakened to them. I’ve tried to meditate over them, even though these days my mind is truly a wild, screeching monkey. I realize, of course, that I need to reframe this event, ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... growth, and awakening, and distilling the essentials of practice, it helps you drop any unnecessary baggage and focus on the potent, juicy heart of the matter.” That is, it gives you the tools you need ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... it’s not a matter of making a marketing plan, or deciding how many clients we need to make a living. It’s a matter of focusing completely on ourselves and our willingness to go deep into our practice. ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... out the window at the garden that needs so much attention. I could learn to stop saying that the garden needs so much attention. I could practice it daily. That might be a worthy endeavor. I can ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... to arise. It’s called Breathe, Move, Write, and I’d love to have you join me to learn how it works. You’ll learn a very simple sequence of yoga movements (you do not need to know anything about yoga ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... to see this herding instinct as enough. It is sufficient. I don’t need to be something I’m not, though I have striven for decades to be so. Somewhere along the amazing week of the retreat, I dropped ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... why I can’t do it. I travel too much. (I don’t.) I need a partner to help me with the responsibility of a dog. (Didn’t have that when I was married, so I’m wondering why I need it now.) Having a dog ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... practice is to accept what is, without having to explain it, know it, figure it out, or manipulate it to my needs. And when I can do that, that is let myself be suspended on a rock, I can, miraculously, ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
... I’ve faced have served merely to point me to a deeper misalignment in my life, a place to which I need to direct new energy. A planner and a doer by nature, I’m not comfortable with uncertainty, ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... when we need them the most” (79). And finally, in his article, Dan Seigel says mindfulness, “instead of being seen primarily as attention or emotion regulation, might be considered an ‘internal form” ...
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The Worst Thing About Living Alone
(My Writing/Poetry)
... no one who says, “Honey, I’m running up to the grocery store. Need anything? Or when you put clean sheets on the bed and iron the pillowcases so they’re smooth and soft to your cheek, and there’s no ...