Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice
Notas del episodio
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Timestamps:
- 0:00 a powerful morning reading practice
- 2:00 on staying consistent with your habits
- 7:00 how I structure readings of scripture
- 8:00 my meditative reading of Moby Dick
- 9:00 reading imaginative literature scripturally
- 10:00 speed-reading vs subvocalisation
- 11:00 on rereading resonant passages
- 12:00 theatre of the mind & simple contemplation
- 13:00 imagination, empathy, applying the senses
- 14:00 threefold present & eternity in the text
- 16:00 mindfulness in our everyday lives
- 17:00 future as string of present moments
- 19:00 good material for the reading practice
- 20:00 from Aurelius to Rilke & Tolstoy
- 22:00 how the practice differs from reading
- 24:00 how Virginia Woolf read great literature
- 25:00 why I love reading difficult books
- 26:00 reading as conversation & act of love
- 27:00 the ease and joy of the daily practice
- 28:00 the four steps of my reading practice
- 32:00 practice walkthrough with Tolstoy
- 33:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage One
- 39:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Two
- 45:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Three
- 48:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Four
- 52:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Five
- 56:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Six
- 59:00 let us know about your practice