49: Presence & Pivots with Alan Watts and Lao Tzu

This Feels Important

Tory and Kari could say f*** it today. Or they could show up, hit record, and hope something shifts. And in this episode, something shifts. After all, crying is growing.

They bring back a favorite idea, and each shares two quotes that hold significance for them right now. Tory shares a quote from Lao Tzu:

“If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.”

And Kari brings a quote from Alan Watts:

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

Tory shares why she no longer lets everything slide into a sinkhole and why facing the seemingly small, uncomfortable things are harder than starting fresh and new. And Kari shares why she has changed from sitting in the moment of now to the moment of anticipation. Then she highlights why she believes in all gain, no pain, and why life should be the right kind of hard.

Kari and Tory also want to hear about your manifestation magic. So email your stories of manifestation at [e-mail]. And join the This Feels Important text community at 1-619-566-7722.

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This Feels Important explores the hairy, scary, weird, and sometimes orgasmic journey of navigating our ever-evolving relationships with self, others, and the world around us.

Your hosts, Kari Keating and Tory Dube - along with a lineup of epic guests - open the floor for honest discussions about the taboo feels (sex! money!), the painful feels (miscarriages! divorce! grief!), and the fun feels (psychedelics! sex again!) that are inevitable, necessary and freaking important as we all navigate the highs, lows and in-betweens of the human experience.

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