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You Might Be Right
A Catholic investment banker takes a match to his beliefs, reads a thousand books, chants to Shiva, and keeps the one thing he almost knows.
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Embodied presence
Our bodies know more than words can say.
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Brave Either Way
How do we choose when there is no right path?
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The Doors of Sensation
From the experience of breath, to sitting, to pain and beyond, what happens when we allow the body to become an impermanent field of sensation?
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✨ 7. How to be here
A quiet charter of presence for Grokkist.
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✨ 4. Breathing Into Uncertainty
You don’t have to know where you’re headed. By trusting how you travel, the path will form beneath your feet as you go.
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✨ 3. Comfort in Contradiction
You don’t have to choose between confidence and doubt. You can hold both, and in that tension, you grow stronger.
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The practice of being alive
When we notice a gap between ourselves and our experiences, what do we do next?
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Rosemary Sutcliff and Stoicism
How do the stories we read shape the stories we live?
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Growing Trees
How do we find the patience to tend to a future we may never see blossom?
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4 | Learning the Rhythms of the Land and Growing Food to Give It Away, with Edgar Hayes and Ann Rader
What happens when growing food becomes a spiritual practice, and generosity is the harvest? Edgar and Ann reflect on a life of rooted justice.
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A is for - Acceleration
A well-timed swing reveals the quiet power of momentum and the wisdom of accelerating at the right moment.
🎨 Sculpting with Tree Sap and Time
A 15-minute documentary following Kyoto artist Mine Tanigawa as she creates sculptures from urushi lacquer, a material used in Japan for over 7,000 years. Less a 'making of' than a portrait of attention: raw tree sap transformed through layer upon layer of colour, polishing and curing, eac
Read the note ↗👁️ Iris Murdoch and Love as a Way of Seeing
Matthew Crawford revisits Iris Murdoch as a philosopher pushing back against thin, hyper-rational models of human life. For Murdoch, morality isn't mainly abstract reasoning but attention — the difficult practice of seeing the world, other people and oneself more clearly. Her radical claim
Read the note ↗🕯️ A Religion Without Doctrine
A case for a religion that doesn't ask you to believe the right things but to show up and practice. Modern Quakerism is almost purely orthopraxic: sit in silence, pay attention, speak only if something real needs saying. At its centre is a simple claim — there's a part of you that already
Read the note ↗🏺 A Potter's Love-Hate with Porcelain
'Somewhere down the line it's just going to be another failure…' A potter returns to porcelain after years with stoneware and captures, with exquisite honesty, the tender friction of re-encountering a material that resists and reveals. Porcelain throws like plasticky cheddar, he says — sed
Read the note ↗🕊️ Simone Weil on the Generosity of Attention
'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.' For Simone Weil, attention isn't effortful focus but an emptying out — a waiting, a letting-go of expectation so that something real can arise. 'Our thought must be empty, waiting, not seeking anything.' A kind of secular prayer. For
Read the note ↗🪵 Kumiko: The Japanese Art of Wood Joinery
Kumiko is the centuries-old Japanese craft of assembling wooden lattice patterns using nothing but precisely cut joints — no nails, no glue, just care and tension. We follow Kurozu Tetsuo, one of the few remaining artisans keeping the tradition alive; as his hands move with practiced calm,
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