Tag Archives: compassionate attention

Rachel Naomi Remen on the wounded healer

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other … Continue reading

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Crystal Pite on Flight Pattern

  This looks heartbreaking and wonderful…. Art as protest and activism. It was on stage in March this year. Choreographer, Crystal Pite, is the first woman to have created a new work for the Royal Ballet in almost two decades. … Continue reading

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The Waking by Theodore Roethke

The Waking   I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.    I learn by going where I have to go.   We think by feeling. What is there to know?    … Continue reading

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