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Category Archives: dying
Heavy – Mary Oliver
Deeply sad to hear of the death of Mary Oliver, who has accompanied many of us over the sunlit grasslands and through the tight ravines. Gratitude for all she offers, and to Vera de Chalambert on Facebook for reminding us … Continue reading →
Posted in beauty, consciousness, creativity, dying, emotions, grief, love, Mary Oliver, poetry, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, spirituality, surrender
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Rachel Naomi Remen on our need to grieve
“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don’t grieve, a part of us … Continue reading →
Posted in consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, flow, grief, growth, healing, human condition, loss, perception, Rachel Naomi Remen, sadness & pain, tears
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John O’Donohue on The Call To Live Everything
John O’Donohue on diving into our wild depths of aliveness, and not settling. Here’s the text for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- ‘THE CALL TO LIVE EVERYTHING One of the sad things today is that so many people … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, embodiment, empowerment, fear, flow, identity, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, meaning, mindfulness, natural world, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, presence, rewilding, risk, self, self concept, vulnerability, wonder
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5 things I wish you knew before euthanizing your dog – Kelsey Beth Carpenter
https://pupjournal.com/5-things-wish-knew-euthanizing/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pj-share Click on the above link for this reflective, kind, helpful piece on a difficult theme by a veterinary technician. The writer of this post has seen many beloved creatures on their final journeys, and resonated with these comments, whether … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, accountability, communication, compassion, cultural questions, cultural taboos, dependence, dying, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, gratitude, grief, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, loss, love, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, tears, trust, vulnerability
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Robert MacFarlane on our estrangement from the dark
“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect of contemporary life. That winter hour, though, up on the summit ridge with the stars falling … Continue reading →
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2016: The Reveal – Charlotte Du Cann
http://dark-mountain.net/blog/2016-the-reveal/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.dark-mountain.net for Charlotte’s article, another powerful Zeitgeist piece at the end of a big, shadow-filled year:- ‘This alchemical moment has nothing to do with social justice, or environmentalism or any of the … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, accountability, actualizing tendency, autonomy, awakening, beauty, blaming, Charlotte Du Cann, civil rights, communication, community, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, Dark Mountain Project, Disconnection, diversity, dying, ecological, ecological issues, embodiment, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, external locus, fear, flow, gratitude, grief, growth, healing, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loss, love, meaning, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, shadow, transformation, trauma, trust, values & principles, violence, vulnerability, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Jason Hine on Grief, Praise, Love & Presence
Here’s the text for those who have difficulty following Facebook links:- ‘I wrote this a few years ago: Spiritual teachers, philosophers and some psychotherapists tell us that it is beneficial to live in the present moment, that ultimately only the … Continue reading →
Posted in awakening, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, dying, embodiment, emotions, flow, gratitude, grief, interconnection & belonging, Jason Hine, love, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, surrender, violence, vulnerability
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Pema Chodron on Relaxing with impermanence (on her 80th birthday)
Click on the link to see this little film of Pema at 80, speaking about the fear of death and how we may learn to approach our dying. ‘When the appearances of this life dissolve, may I with ease and … Continue reading →
Posted in Chogyam Trungpa, consciousness, cultural questions, dying, emotions, fear, human condition, loss, meditation, Pema Chödrön, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, resilience, self, spirituality, surrender, transformation, vulnerability
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on living while we’re alive
“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade … Continue reading →
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Joy – David Whyte
David has dedicated this post today on his Facebook page to his daughter, who is beginning college. May all those venturing into the world, and those who love them, experience joy and aliveness. Here is the text, for those who … Continue reading →
Posted in awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, David Whyte, dying, embodiment, emotions, encounter, family systems, fear, flow, gratitude, grief, growing up, interconnection & belonging, loss, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, parenting, perception, photographs & pictures, physical being, presence, relationship, risk, spirituality, surrender, touch, trust, vulnerability, wonder
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