by Kim Ort | Nov 27, 2019 | 30 Days of Perception, Contemplation, Openness, Practices, Seeing
”It is only the innocent mind, the mind unclouded by experience, totally free from the past – it is only such a mind that can perceive what is reality. There is no question of ‘how.’ Your mind must not be distracted by the ‘how,’ by the desire for an answer....
by Kim Ort | Nov 23, 2019 | Contemplation, Habits, Practices, Seeing
”Our perceptual habits, conscious or unconscious, become our reality. Another way to say this is that we tend to see the world as we believe it to be, unless we consciously choose to attend to what we haven’t yet seen, to notice the unexpected elements of the world....
by Kim Ort | Nov 10, 2019 | Attention, Books, Inspiration, Place, Practices
I’d like to introduce you to two of my favourite books of 2019 – The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of Life (paid link) by Stephen Nachmanovitch and How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (paid link) by Jenny Odell. While these books are similar in...
