Just Sit With It
Living with intention, particularly amidst the noise of adult life, can feel elusive at best. Without even noticing, we get swept up in the noise as we try to just put one foot in front of the other and check off the next task.
I don't want to live like that.
I want to mine the full depths of my and our adventure in this world.
Whether it’s in a book, song, poem, podcast, or coming out of somebody’s mouth - I often hear or read some wise words that shake something awake inside of me. The words might be affirming, challenging, the perfect capture of a hard to describe idea, or a swift kick in the pants. When I take the time to just sit with it…to pause and think deeply about the words and about my relationship to those words…that’s when I’m able to find the meaning that helps me think and act differently. So in this podcast, I’ll bring that experience to you - wise words that a range of people from all walks of life have shared about living a more intentional, deeply experienced life. And we will have some dialogue with others around what those words might mean. It will be a structured space where we can slow down and maybe even get disrupted in ways you and I were needing.
Just Sit With It
More Both/And and Less Either/Or
In this episode, my friend Dr. Jude Garnier joins me for a discussion about our abilities to more patiently hold seemingly opposite perspectives, possibly in the same moment, and how we can more patient in how we make sense of what's going on around us.
We use this quote from Dr. Robert Kegan to get us started: “You start…constructing a world that is much more friendly to contradiction, to oppositeness, to being able to hold onto multiple systems of thinking…This means that the self is more about movement through different forms of consciousness than about defending and identifying with any one form.”
And then we move on to another Robert Kegan quote Jude brought along: "Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive to them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange."
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