ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for September 17, 2023
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Dear Ones -
Registration for the Suzanne Stabile event is closed. We are working on a way to register for only livestream attendees. To be clear: everyone who has registered so far, whether for in person or livestream, will get an e-mail the morning of the event that can be used for livestream attendance. Stay tuned.
This week Dr. Holly Hudley and I co-taught a class we called -
Being Defeated by Ever Greater Things
The title comes from a poem by Rilke who was introduced to me by Robert Johnson. Johnson used Rilke as an example of someone who learned to live with his wounds heroically. The things we need to be defeated by are: the fear of losing, the illusion of a separate self, and the notion of “stupid compassion.”
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
The audio version of the talk has some significant differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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