by Kim Ort | Jul 15, 2014 | Adventures in Seeing, Contemplation, Habits, Humility, Seeing, Workshops
Tara Brach begins her podcast on humility with a story about a prisoner in his cell. The prisoner sees an ant and spends some time watching it, engaging with it, giving it crumbs, etc. After some time, he wonders why “it took him 10 long years of solitary...
by Kim Ort | May 16, 2013 | Adventures in Seeing, Attention, Contemplation, Humility
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. ~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell On this blog I talk a lot about...
by Kim Ort | Nov 15, 2011 | Humility, Inspiration, Photography, Workshops
Creative Commons Photo by David Stanley on Flickr “Live like a river flows, surprised by its own unfolding.” ~ John O’Donohue, Conamara Blues (paid link) One thing I’ve discovered over the years is that it’s good to have a plan, but...