A Mindful Week #16
Your weekly dose of mindfulness, creativity & insight. Curated by Nikolas & the Art of Meditation team.
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01 Life Hack
The OODA Loop: Observe, orient, decide and act. The four pillars fight pilots use to make effective decisions in high stake situations.
02 Documentary
Short Documentary Raising Compassion: Studio Olafur Eliasson brings us this short documentary following a remarkable exchange between science, art, and contemplative practice.
03 Creativity
Virgil Abloh Lecture: Designer and fashion enfant terrible Virgil Abloh is our creative system thinker of the week. His lecture at Harvard School of Design graduation is a candid look at his principles & how to innovate in a time like ours.
04 Art
Art of Meditation at Fondation Beyeler: Contemplative, immersive and enduring. What happens if we would take the time needed to expand our awareness and have a deeper encounter with the art? Diego Hangartner offers an entirely different gallery and online experience. (Image Credit: Fondation Beyeler; Nel-Olivia Waga)
05 Music
The Divine Feminine Playlist: Our playlist of the week comes from Alexis, our beloved team member. Don’t click this if you are allergic to beautiful and melodical sound-pieces.
06 Quote
Quotes that make us think.
This Week in The Art of Meditation Club
07 Meditation Club
In our Art of Meditation Club a dream team of meditation teachers and coaches support a community of curious minds in their quest to living an examined life.
08 Thoughts of the Week
This week I would like to use this space to share a poem I revisit often.
David Whyte is one of the most interesting voices on the intersection of poetry, contemplative practice and philosophy. I frequently visit the house of his thinking to find answers to questions I am pondering.
On this note, "the kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink”.
Yours,
Nikolas
Everything Is Waiting for You
A poem by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the
conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
09 This Week in our Club for Curious Minds
On Mindful Monday
Nikolas will invite you to use your imagination in a meditation inspired by modern mindfulness icons.
On Zen Tuesday
Former Zen Monk René will introduce you to meditations and insights from old wisdom traditions.
On Loving-Kindness Wednesday
Hannah will explore the self-healing power of training compassion and loving/kindness practice.
On A Mindful Life Thursday
Nikolas will introduce mental models that help to bring more awareness in everyday life.
On Deep Mind Sunday
Sascha will offer a space to deepen your meditation practice.
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