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Routine is a neurological life hack for efficiency and an unavoidable part of being an adult. But when everything becomes automatic, it’s easy to lose touch with the small moments that once felt sacred.
How to Find Magic in the Ordinary
yana yuhai
When we realize our true self is nothing other than present-moment experience, we are free to love whatever is happening, regardless of whether we like it! If our partner rejects us, of course we will grieve his or her absence and do nothing for weeks but watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer in our ratty bathrobe. But we can grieve with the profound understanding that this moment of grieving is life here and now. This is it. This moment is what’s happening now. Must we give in to the hoodwinking desire that tells us to abandon this moment because it is not what we wanted?
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
There is a delight in finally discovering the exact right label for one’s felt experience. Language facilitates higher levels of attention.
Attending to the Other - By Jasmine Wang 5535657137
jasminewang.substack.com
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