Today we talk about the practice moment to moment awareness to pain as it arises using the example of Kate navigating driving in the rain after her mother was killed in a car accident during a storm. Elizabeth and Kate talk about practicing Michael Singer's vision of allowing pain to enter and leave the body as energy when pain comes to avoid storing it and hardening it. They talk about meditation techniques they have used and the openness to try new ones.  

1. Staying present through recurrent pain - 00:00 - 07:48
2. Permitting stressors to enter and leave as energy - 07:48 - 15:29
3. Power of meditation: unlocking intentional living - 15:29 - 23:30
4. Living in the question - 23:21 - 31:37
5. Letting go of concepts in each moment - 31:37 - 39:17
6. Experiencing oneness and quiet - 39:17 - 41:54

Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul - We reference him a lot, and there's a reason for that. Check out his website, and try not to be drawn into this book from the first page. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and to try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books that are written
in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day
into the answer."

David M. Potter, Stanford Professor of History, as quoted to me by my father: "All the Simple Answers Seem Suspect" – David M. Potter

Plato, The Apology: "The unexamined life..." (yep, we love returning to this idea as well)

Ramana Maharshi, the Who Am I teaching instructions. 

Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Chapter VI, God, the Consciousness of the Individual, on the Buddha's seeking first outside, and then within: "He does it all, but he does not find God. Then when he decides to eat and be comfortable, he sits down under the Bodhi tree and there, alone with God, he meets Him face to face and receives his illumination. He had been seeking God in practices, exercises, diets, and fasting, and God is not to be found in any of these. God is to be found only within. It is not easy to shut out the world and enter the inner sanctuary of your being, but if you have to do this and stay away from the world for a year..."

Magic carpet rides are often sourced to One Thousand and One Nights, or at least it is in Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which I found on Wikipedia.

Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way, suggesting Morning Pages for all creative enterprises. More on that here.