Monthly Archives: June 2014

Osho on courage

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes … Continue reading →

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Rumi on the heart & the house of light

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘I will never leave this house of light, I will never leave this blessed town for here I have found my love and here I will stay for the rest of my life. If this world turns into a sea … Continue reading →

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Thomas Merton on Not Knowing & Intention/Presence

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and … Continue reading →

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Educating Yorkshire – Mushy Finds His Voice

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is just lovely. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Shauna Shapiro: The IAA Model of Mindfulness

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is a worthwhile 10 minutes about the practice of mindfulness. It identifies three components: intention, attention, attitude. We think this is an extremely useful way of making sense of mindfulness, and picks up the key elements of presence in … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers on Empathy

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“To be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter another’s world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay … Continue reading →

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Leah Harris: From Self Care to Collective Caring

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Leah Harris: From Self Care to Collective Caring Click on the title for this excellent article on http://www.beyondmeds.com by Leah Harris about self-care, healing, our need for each other, and our need for shifts in our current cultural paradigms. Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

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Paulo Coelho on Risking Pain

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she … Continue reading →

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Living beyond limits: Amy Purdy at TEDxOrangeCoast

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“If my life were a book, and I were the author, how would I want the story to go?” Amy as phoenix, rising from the ashes of her life to realize herself. “I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken”. Found … Continue reading →

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Einstein on Consciousness, Compassion & Belonging

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his … Continue reading →

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