Beginner's Mind

In the mailbox this Saturday, January 21, 2023

Yesterday birthdays included those of actor and comedian George Burns in New York (1896); and Italian film director Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy (1920).

To get better at wintering, we need to address our very notion of time. We tend to imagine that our lives are linear, but they are in fact cyclical. – Katherine May in Maria Popova's Marginalian.

Perhaps what’s really needed isn’t more knowing, more books, more teachings, more techniques, but the permission to trust your own experience, to trust this present moment in the knowledge that you don’t actually know what this is and what will happen next. – Martin Aylward