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Leonard Cohen – Dance Me To The End Of Love

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The late, much missed Leonard Cohen, doing what only he could do. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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‘The Poet and the Shepherd’ by Joshua Boettiger

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://parabola.org/2017/01/31/the-poet-and-the-shepherd-by-joshua-boettiger/ Click on the link to visit Parabola Magazine for this astonishing article by Joshua Boettiger:- ‘We could say the search for meaning – which is a holy search – becomes imperiled whenever the poet-self and the shepherd-self are out … Continue reading →

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Leonard Cohen – The Sound of Silence

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is astonishing. His words keep sounding long after he has finished speaking. Tenderness and beauty. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling 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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