A Continual State of Surprise
“So strange, life is. Why people do not go around in a continual state of surprise is beyond me.”
Mindfulness
- Daron Larson
- Kit Spahr Yoga
- Maria Gonzalez (Argonauta Consulting)
- Mind & Life Institute (UCLA)
- Mindful Awareness Research Center (UCLA)
- Mindfulness Research Guide
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (UMASS)
- Online Papers on Consciousness
- Phillip Moffitt
- Shinzen Young
- Shinzen's Basic Mindfulness
- Shinzen's Interviews
- Shinzen's YouTube Channel
- Skillful Means Wiki
- Soryu Scott's Method for Better Decision-Making
- Unfettered Mind (Ken McLeod)
- Wise Brain
Blogs
- Best American Poetry
- Daily Apple, The
- Dalai Grandma, The
- Fifty-Two Stories
- Figaro [rhetoric]
- Frontal Cortex, The (Jonah Lehrer)
- Jonathan Carroll
- Jonk Music
- Loom, The (Carl Zimmer)
- Measure for Measure (NYT)
- Mildly Creative (Ken Robert)
- Miranda July
- Modern Art Notes (Tyler Green)
- Moments of Rest
- Neurophilosophy (Mo Costandi)
- Paper Cuts (NYT)
- Raptitude (David Cain)
- Sanguine Spice
- Silliman's [Poetry] Blog
- Thought Kitchen, The
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Daron Larson
Freelance Contemplative
"The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely...is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay or...learning to come back, to return to the present over and over again."
~ Pema Chödrön, from Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
~ Pema Chödrön, from Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
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Programs/Podcasts
Salubrion Enso Clock
Procrastination and Organization
Cool Stuff
- Ann Hamilton
- Favorite Poem Project
- FORA.tv
- Improv Everywhere
- Interview Project (David Lynch)
- Jeni's Ice Creams
- La Blogothèque Take-Away Shows
- Lomographic Society
- Overheard in New York
- Peoples Archive
- Post Secret
- Pretty Patti T-shirts
- Radar Magazine
- Reel Life Wisdom
- Stuart Davis
- TED Talks
- The Believer
- The Moth
- The Sun Magazine
- Vulture (NY Mag)
- Wexner Center for the Arts
- Yelp
- Zoetrope: All-Story
Blog Archive
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- It’s Less the Device than the Devices
- The House of Small Cubes
- Life Moved More Slowly
- Everywhere, but Nowhere
- Uniting Against an Outside Enemy
- It’s Harder to Agree to Grief and Loss
- There is Grandeur, If You Look
- What It Is To Be Human
- Giving Happiness, Receiving Happiness
- Don’t Quit
- Everything We Need
- It’s a Search
- Life Changes
- The First Mouth that Drops Open in Surprise
- We Are Dust and Dreams
- A Continual State of Surprise
- Everybody
- Blooming, Buzzing, Confusion
- Making Music with the Mind
- A Mission
- Before we were born…
- The Ghost Within Every Experience
- Resources to Deal with the Ups and Downs
- Neither Young Nor Old
- Gathering Together
- Fully Occupied
- Watching
- What Was There All Along
- A Place to Step in and Change Things
- Creating a Portrait on the Cheap
- Few Words
- Experiencing Light
- The Silence is All
- Why Wonder Why
- Seeing Through the Story
- Most of Our Time
- Transforming Abstract Space into a Place
- Trying to Find a Location
- Looking
- Cultivating Ourselves
- Painting Has Its Own Inadequacy
- Anything Else
- You’ve Been Contemplative
- Working without Words
- Feeling Okay about Not Feeling Okay
- The Survival of the More Versatile
- The Full Flowering of Humanity
- Endogenous Repair
- Caricatures
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