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Category: Book Bits

Idries Shah
Book Bits

“Do Not Visit the Sufi Unless You Want to Benefit”

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Sufi teacher and author Idries Shah on the importance and mind-opening potential of the teacher-student relationship.

Tagged guidance, Jelalludin Rumi, student, sufism, Teacher, trust1 Comment
Natalia Ginzburg
Book Bits

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.

Tagged Children, education, love of life, passion, Silence, Virtue, vocation1 Comment
Jack Kornfield
Book Bits

The Path Through the Gateless Gate

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jack Kornfield teaches that too much emphasis on 'special' experiences might take us away from the practice of opening up to what is in front of us.

Tagged Awakening, Buddha, ecstasy, effortlessness, Enlightenment, Experience, Gateless Gate, Mystical, Practice, present momentLeave a comment
Mencius
Book Bits, The Masters

Mencius – To Fathom the Mind

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

Chinese philosopher Mencius' core conviction was that human nature is fundamentally good and pure and only sullied by societal living.

Tagged Advice, Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, life, Mind, seeking, shame, WisdomLeave a comment
Olivia Sudjic
Book Bits

A ‘Difficult’ Disease

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Vanessa Able

After releasing her debut novel, Olivia Sudjic found herself coming under intense scrutiny as a writer, an episode that contributed to her falling into a spiral of anxiety and self-doubt.

Tagged alienation, Anxiety, doubt, exposure, invalidation, self-doubt, WritingLeave a comment
Paul Tillich
Book Bits

On the Anxiety of Non-Being

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theologian Paul Tillich on the interplay of anxiety and fear and how they feed in to one another at the very foundation of the human mind.

Tagged Anxiety, Death, Emptiness, existence, Fear, God, non-being, nothingness, theology, unknown2 Comments
Anne Lamott
Book Bits

The Ecstasy of Paying Attention

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

When we are looking, says Anne Lamott, really actively observing, then we are overriding our tendency towards interpreting and distorting the objects of our perception.

Tagged Advice, attention, awe, distortion, Gary Snyder, observation, presence, respect, reverence, WritingLeave a comment
Jundo Cohen
Book Bits

How to Dance? Lessons from a Zen Master

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jundo Cohen paints a picture of the universe as an integrated and indivisible dance, in which certain elements temporarily swirl out then return to the whole.

Tagged dance, Dogen, Emptiness, music, Reality, rhythm, Unity, Zen1 Comment
Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

To Possess Is To Give

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde's book The Gift is a treatise on the power of the creative spirit and the dynamics of giving to transform the world.

Tagged begging, creativity, economy, Emptiness, flow, Gift, giving, mendicantLeave a comment
Sharon Salzberg
Book Bits

Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

Sharon Salzberg on why the richest way of loving means starting with our very selves.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, guilt, Kindness, love, Loving-Kindness, Meditation, metta, remorse, self-love, TheravadaLeave a comment

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