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Our Power to Bless One Another – John O’Donohue

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Here’s the wording, for those who have trouble seeing Facebook posts:- ‘OUR POWER TO BLESS ONE ANOTHER In the parched deserts of postmodernity a blessing can be like the discovery of a fresh well. It would be lovely if we … Continue reading →

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Ursula Le Guin on the unhelpfulness of ideas about ‘deserving’

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another … Continue reading →

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Spinning Straw – Tracy Cochran

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://parabola.org/2017/07/30/spinning-straw-by-tracy-cochran/?utm_content=buffer9bcb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Click on the link above to visit the site for Parabola Magazine for this remarkable reworking of the Brothers Grimm. It is not long since we published a piece by Tracy – but the writer stumbled upon this at … Continue reading →

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Alice Walker’s Beatitudes

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, … Continue reading →

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Angad Singh’s Protest & Response to Hate Crime & the Murder of Timothy Caughman

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Remarkable commitment and poise at 23… Important that we each find our ways to speak out and upstand. Thank you, Angad. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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John O’Donohue on the quiet light in each heart

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this John O’Donohue quote on Facebook – gentle, beautiful, true. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

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Leonard Cohen on what a saint is

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy … Continue reading →

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Michael Bernard Beckwith: Are You Serving the Emerging Paradigm?

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit You Tube for this brief film (under 5 minutes) in which Michael Beckwith talks about the ethic of service; serving the emerging paradigm; and the work happening worldwide to support that emergence. We see … Continue reading →

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Anne Lamott – Love is sovereign here

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We have a bit of a theme this week around how helpfully to respond to the violence and craziness in our world, our fear and sense of powerlessness in the face of all that, and our own more difficult feelings. Follow … Continue reading →

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Maya Angelou on Rainbows

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is exquisite. ‘Be a blessing to somebody’. That’s what we think too. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

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