On Listening (NY Times Article)

(Original article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/arts/television/storycorps-marks-its-10th-anniversary.html?nl=nyregion&emc=edit_ur_20131027)

Short piece on StoryCorps's 10-year anniversary. 

The act of listening “reminds people that they matter..."

To listening.

Sadhguru (Washington Post: Obsessed-with-success Washington could learn a lesson from mystic Sadhguru)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/obsessed-with-success-washington-could-learn-a-lesson-from-mystic-sadhguru/2013/10/24/7ff3bb94-3c39-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html

"The issue is: How do you conduct your life in a situation that is terrible?  The important thing is what you make out of it. You only come out wounded or wise."
-Sadhguru

I've come across this message time and time again - you are not able to control external factors, but only how you react to it (Frankl, Sadhguru...others I'm undoubtedly forgetting). So choose well. Turn the wound into wisdom somehow.

The most important message of all is this: “Love, joy, peace, bliss are not sustainable.”
-Sadhguru

What an interesting sentence, huh? Not quite what I think of when I think of inspiration. And yet maybe that's exactly it - knowing that a state of bliss, a state of peace, all those other states, aren't sustainable. Maybe that frees us of our preconceived notions, allows us to open up.

To coming out of terrible situations wounded - because I'm not so sure we can help that - but wiser.