#on being

[soracities]

David Whyte in conversation with Krista Tippett, On Being [transcript in ALT]

#q #quotes #david whyte #on being #i was a bride married to amazement #typography #the wide wide world #m #x

[rowenabean]

The girl next to me at pottery last week had only been throwing for two days, and she was producing better pots than I did for the first two weeks, and it got me thinking about being a natural at a skill.

See, when I was a kid, I mostly only did things I was a natural at. I was a natural at academics, and I kept doing them. I was not a natural at gymnastics when we set up in the school gym, and I didn't have the time to learn to do it anyway, so I spent my life thinking that was something I just couldn't do.

I was not a natural at pottery. But I have worked at it, and I am learning. I was not a natural, but I have taught my palms how to centre and my fingers how to pull. I was not a natural - and I can create beautiful things anyway.

Sometimes it's good, to learn that you don't have to be natural.

#on being

[divinesouldariax]

Ashton's little panic attack in Zephrah, part TWO (featuring a slightly drunk Orym and a very good mom)

#critical role fic #orym #ashton greymoore #on being #on being home #my writing #yes it's been 3 months since the last on being what about it #i do not control the hyperfixation #and currently it says 'your inspiration lives in a podcast that had <50 fics on ao3 before u joined the fandom' fdslkjhfkjs #it'll be nice to get more than 3 kudos on a fic tho. i do miss the engagement of a bigger fandom a little

[nrthland]

rules for living: 2023

1. PAY ATTENTION

2. NOTICE THE SOUNDS OF THE BIRDS SINGING IN THE MORNING

3. MAKE TIME JUST TO FEEL THE BREEZE ON YOUR FACE

4. ABANDON SHAME

5. FORGIVE YOURSELF. FORGIVE THEM TOO

6. CULTIVATE PASSION

7. HOLD ON TO JOY

8. LOOK UP AROUND AND FIND GOD

9. (realize that doesn't mean what you thought it did)

10. EMBRACE THE MYSTERIOUS AND UNKNOWN. LET IT STAY UNKNOWN

11. CLOSE YOUR EYES WHEN YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC

12. READ AND RE-READ AND RE-READ MORE

13. DO SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE BAD AT. GET BETTER

14. LEARN TO SLOW DOWN. APPRECIATE THE STILLNESS WHEN IT FINDS YOU

#inspired by the post linked at the top #on being #t

[theregencyreticule]

"There is nothing lonelier than the loneliness that you feel when you are next to someone with whom you think that you once did not feel lonely"

Esther Perel

"The Erotic is an Antidote to Death" The On Being Podcast

#esther perel #on being

[iseetheworldinmetaphor]

"All art holds the knowledge that we're both living and dying."

—Marie Howe, On Being Podcast

#poetry #marie howe #on being #krista tippett #writing #art #making art #making movies #creativity

[artists-ache]

Old drawing of mine that I found

#humanity #hope #on being #on living #existence #love #art #comic #drawing #despite despite despite

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

If we listen to Indigenous communities around ways that they have resolved conflict over thousands and thousands and thousands of years, a lot of it is these same practices, and they’re still practicing them. So it’s being in a circle. It’s listening. It’s being able to let one person speak at a time. It’s identifying what are the consequences — not the punishments, but what are the reasonable consequences, the boundaries? How do we make this right? What does that actually look like? — and relinquishing the idea that we’ll all end up as best friends at the end or whatever; that kind of fairytale, Disney version of conflict mediation — instead being with what is: the human condition.

It says, it might be hard. You might never get back to that. But you can get to a just place. You can get to a just place. You can get to place where you’re not walking around carrying the anger, that that’s not the primary experience you’re having. It’s like, I was hurt, and now I’ve been able to move forward, and here’s what moving forward looks like, and I was able to define some of that for myself.

- Adrienne Maree Brown, On Being

#now listening #on being #podcast #w #adrienne maree brown

[stargir1z]

subscendence, timothy morton

#timothy morton #object oriented ontology #on objects #on being #on association #my uploads

[coruscatingdust]

Ocean Vuong, A Life Worthy of Our Breath, On Being with Krista Tippett

#quotes #on death #interview #on being #mortality #human condition #krista tippett

[thehedgehogsdilemmaa]

on life and dancing

beginnings of the body, ends of the sea, adonis (tr. khaled mattawa) // this is us, 6x13 // in praise of laughter, ilya kaminsky // this is us, 6x13 // concerning the book that is the body of the beloved, gregory orr

#this is us gave me so many web weaving ideas.... #okay this has been in my drafts for too long now. I have to get rid of it #web weavings #web weaving #art compilation #art parallels #media parallels #parallels #compilation #dance #dancing #living #life #on life #on living #on being #adonis #gregory orr #ilya kaminsky #this is us #randall pearson #beth pearson #dan fogelman #literature #literature quotes #literature and art #poetry #aliveness #is it even a word? #theuserdilemma

[soracities]

David Whyte, on the death of his friend John O’Donohue, in conversation with Krista Tippett, On Being [transcript in ALT]

#q #quotes #david whyte #on being #beyond the river lethe there is memory healed #here and where you are #favourite #typography #m #x

[sehnsuchtz]

from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

#literature #prose #diane ackerman #a natural history of the senses #quote #excerpt #on being #on being human #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #sensory #the human experience #humanity #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #light academia aesthetic #academia aesthetic #academia #chaotic academia #chaotic academia aesthetic

[nrthland]

2024 is the year we learn to shed the guilt and shame like old skin off a snake and of course that will leave you vulnerable and raw but it is also the only way you will ever be able to grow, and growing is the only way you will be able to live. andby the way this doesn't mean you're destined to play the role of the serpent you can still be holy even if you can't stop asking why

#2024 #on being #t

[theregencyreticule]

“Since before we were Homo sapiens,” he writes, “humans have been seeking out spaces of darkness in which to find and make meaning.” Darkness in the natural world and in human life, he suggests, is a medium of vision, and descent a movement toward revelation. In a moment in which a new relationship to the ground we stand on has become a civilizational calling, Robert Macfarlane’s way of seeing the world — at once scholarly and playful, literary and enchanting — refreshes and motivates in a most life-giving way. (Krista Tippett, On Being)

Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation about the worlds beneath our feet, and how we interact with and find meaning through them.

#on being #robert macfarlane #krista tippett #underland #deep time

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Happy 147th birthday to Rilke, protector of distances, mysteries, questions, and openings. Here's part of his 9th elegy, translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows:

“Earth, isn’t this what you want? To arise in us, invisible? Is it not your dream, to enter us so wholly there’s nothing left outside us to see? What, if not transformation, is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love, I want it too. Believe me, no more of your springtimes are needed to win me over—even one flower is more than enough. Before I was named I belonged to you. I seek no other law than yours, and know I can trust the death you will bring.

“See, I live. On what? Childhood and future are equally present. Sheer abundance of being floods my heart.” [On Being]

#On Being #Rainer Maria Rilke #9th Elegy #abundance #poem #poetry #words and writing #my favorites