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I will have become – David Whyte

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link above to visit David’s Facebook page for these beautiful words. Here’s the link for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- ‘I WILL HAVE BECOME I will have become like the madman running to see the … Continue reading →

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For One Who Is Exhausted – John O’Donohue

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link above to visit Facebook for John’s beautiful blessing, for the many of us needing it from time to time. Here are the words, for those who have difficulty seeing FB links:- FOR ONE WHO IS EXHAUSTED … Continue reading →

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Your True Home – John O’Donohue

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit John O’Donohue’s page on Facebook for this beautiful meditation. We are struck that his conclusion is the same as Carl Rogers – when we are able to come home to ourselves and be … Continue reading →

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Mirabai Starr in our inner worlds

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements. Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds. Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, … Continue reading →

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Matt Licata on Ego

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Ego’ for many of us becomes a term of abuse for self/other and source of shame. Here’s a radically different and far more accurate/useful take on this…. Thanks, Matt. Here’s the text for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- … Continue reading →

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Hildegard of Bingen on finding our own way home

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own … Continue reading →

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Your Boat Home – Ruth Cohen-Rose

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Your Boat Home The most intolerable, unfeelable, unbearable pain is your boat home. Sail it if you will. Embark on the perilous journey to the unclaimed shores of your being. The seas will be rough, Something in you will drown … Continue reading →

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‘maggie and milly and molly and may’ ee cummings

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays … Continue reading →

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Mary Oliver – Sleeping in the Forest

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire … Continue reading →

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