Notifications from emails and messages. Relentless streams of news and social media updates. From the moment we wake up to the time we fall asleep, our minds are crowded with an endless list of to-dos. Amid the vague anxiety of wanting to achieve something someday, we might have lost sense of the present moment right […] The post Richness in Restraint: How the Tea Ceremony Inspires Mindful, Sustainable Living appeared first on Zenbird - Gateway to Sustainability in Japan.| Zenbird – Gateway to Sustainability in Japan
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I've been reading a lot of Ursula Le Guin recently. I won't hesitate to call it an obsession. But maybe the better word is an apprenticeship, or a hunger, or both. I've apprenticed myself unconsciously to her words, because they are full of something I am hungry for, something I didn't know I was hungry for until I found it. For a while I couldn't articulate what "it" was. Only that the way she made worlds, and words, filled me up with a sense of both light and dark, a sense of rightness and ...| The Gleewoman's Notes