“TIP: The air + water temperature should total at least 100°F before taking your dog paddleboarding.”
— G. Scott Graham, SUP with your Pup: A Guide to Paddleboarding with your Dog
tags: dog-training, paddlebaording, sup
“Don’t Ask. Act. Don’t Ask. Act. Don’t Ask. Act. Got it? … She didn’t ask. She didn’t suggest. She took action. It was exactly what I needed. It is exactly what people who are grieving need.”
— G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief
tags: grief
“The eight precepts are not restrictions. They are invitations to live with greater intention, meaning, and joy.”
— G. Scott Graham, Living the Eight Precepts
tags: atthasīla, buddhist-ethics, eight-precepts, eightfold-ethical-conduct, uposatha-vows
“The eighth precept, traditionally stated as ‘To refrain from luxurious beds and high seats,’ can be reimagined as a positive aspiration: I live simply, rest mindfully, and rise with intention.”
— G. Scott Graham, Living the Eight Precepts
tags: atthasīla, buddhist-ethics, eight-precepts, eightfold-ethical-conduct, uposatha-vows
“Grief doesn’t end. That’s the myth I want to let go of once and for all. It doesn’t finish. It doesn’t fade neatly. It doesn’t follow a linear arc with a clean moral at the end. It changes shape. It tucks itself into different corners of your life. It surprises you. It adapts.”
— G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later
tags: bereavement, grief-and-loss, grief-and-loss-quotes, grief-quotes, grieving
“Vipassanā isn’t about feeling something — it’s about doing something, over and over again. And like any form of training — physical, mental, or spiritual — there is no shortcut. You can’t bypass the work. You can’t meditate your way around impermanence. You can only meet it — again and again — with awareness and equanimity.”
— G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over
tags: vipassana, vipassana-meditation
“Now, we can access ‘software’ to create a treatment plan for a client instead of a ‘storage cabinet.’ Now we navigate through ‘treatment planning modules’ and these modules are filled with drop down menus and self-populating objectives. We think we are no longer doing fill-in-the blanks. But we are only fooling ourselves.”
— G. Scott Graham, Treatment Planning 101
“Let me be clear here on what the issue is. It is not the cards. It is sympathy. Sympathy does nothing for your grieving. It is just some stupid fucking social norm that makes the person expressing it feel all puffed up about what a good person they are.”
— G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Three Years Later
tags: grief-and-loss
“Honor your psychedelic experience. Honor your intuition. Honor your soul.”
— G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Integration Workbook: Sixty-Day Journal & Transcendence Blueprint
tags: psychedelic-consciousness
“Envision your future self. Dream. Explore. Be courageous. Confront and push yourself.”
— G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Integration Workbook: Sixty-Day Journal & Transcendence Blueprint
tags: psychedelic-consciousness, psychedelic-journal