Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice

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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