Fight back the chaos
A quick audiogram on my way to the gym. Haven’t had much time to catch up with you all today. Hope you’re doing just fine.
Morning Notes 16.03.09 – Getting to grips with that old inner life
Continuing on with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, I noted that achieving happiness is grounded in being able to control your inner life, which reminded me of Epictetus and the idea that if we wish to have inner peace, then we need to focus on the things we can control (which is essentially your inner life) and …
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Morning Notes 15.03.09 – Be Here Now!
Don’t you find it kind of funny how we know what we need to know but like to pretend we don’t know so that we don’t have to act on what we know? (mind blowing i know) Let me explain:
127 episodes and still having fun
We’re on our 4th season with the Havana Cafe Sessions podcast and still having fun. If you’ve never tuned in and listened, you should. It’s a conversational podcast about life – stuff we have questions about, stuff we’re reading, stuff we’re watching and, yeah the stuff we’re dealing with in real life. We put this …
Morning Notes 13.03.09
I’m currently wrestling with the question: what does it mean to be my most evolved and authentic self? This got me thinking about the human potential movement again, and whether or not it’s possible to re-engage with the movement when it was in its nascent state, back before it got mixed up with a lot …
A snippet of Episode 126: The Body-Mind Connection
So this week we discussed how you can use your body to explore your emotions and your thoughts. It’s pretty crazy, the connection between the mind and the body and how each influences the other. You can listen to the full episode here.
I was struck
I never know how this works to say he is a great man means what exactly? What makes one great? Not wars, at least not according to Yoda. “I was struck from the very beginning that there is a totally independent and new voice in writing.” Werner Herzog on Harmony Korine And yet I can’t …
Channelling My Inner Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was a cool cat, at least in his prose. I adore him above all the other Beat Generation icons. His words speak directly to the soul of who I am. On the Road, a classic yes, but give me The Dharma Bums or the Book of Sketches to really get me going. I’m …
Where I need to be
‘I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.’ Douglas Adams, from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Toulouse 9
Seeing how I just finished reading Harold Jaffe’s Paris 60, I thought I’d use it as inspiration for the style of this post. 16.02.2019 Socrates, one of my heroes, said the unexamined life is not worth living. But in this day and age rumor has it that people who don’t spend much time examining their …