Week 11 - Stillness Speaks

Hey!

It's funny how each new book seems to be the perfect medicine for its week.

Since starting this newsletter, I've been listening to audiobooks at 3x-3.5x speed while reading along with an e-book to increase comprehension. And even with note taking and writing analyses, I find myself in this pattern of consumption: consuming ideas, applications, knowledge.. Looking at these books as means to an end rather than being present to the actual experience of reading them in the present moment.

In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle encourages the readers to take the exact opposite approach. In the authors own words:

"This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it. Pick it up frequently. And, more importantly, put it down frequently. Or spend more time holding it than reading it."

I didn't spend more time holding it than reading it, but every passage was like a breath of fresh air for the silent watcher behind my mind; the Awareness that is my Self.

I hope some of that stillness gets passed along.

Blessings,

-T

P.S. Don't forget to drink water and to breathe :)

This Week’s Book

Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

The Book In One Sentence:  A book written as aphorisms "to remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are, and from what you already know in the depth of your being."

Rating: 10/10

Last Week's Book:  The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People  by Stephen Covey

Next Week: Mastery by George Leonard

Links

Youtube Channel - 3 Blue 1 Brown - This youtube channel is one of the best learning resources I have come across for understanding things like Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Cryptocurrency, and more. The visualizations and Socratic approach the creator takes for explaining complex ideas are excellent.

Music - Om Meditation 432hz by Franko Heke ​​

Youtube Channel - Whiteboard Crypto - A great resource for learning about cryptocurrency. Like 3 Blue 1 Brown, the visualizations have the topics much more approachable.

Lecture - Ram Dass: Sacred in the Everyday 

Updates

I was planning to show updates to the app that allow me to go from collecting data with the interface and submit it to Google sheets, but it didn't get finished in time so I'm pushing it to next week.

I'll have more time to work on it, because I moved on from sales. More updates on that next week as well.

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