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Tag Archives: immanence
Mark Nepo on presence and directness
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that … Continue reading →
Posted in awakening, congruence, consciousness, Disconnection, encounter, fear, loneliness, Mark Nepo, meaning, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, presence, touch, vulnerability
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Adrift – Mark Nepo
‘Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web … Continue reading →
Posted in beauty, emotions, flow, gratitude, grief, immanence, joy, loss, love, Mark Nepo, meaning, presence, rewilding, spirituality, surrender, tears, transformation, vulnerability, wonder
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John O’Donohue on the prayer of your soul
“Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul. Listen to the voice of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers. Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, empowerment, growth, identity, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, John O'Donohue, meaning, meditation, presence, spirituality, surrender, transformation, vulnerability
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Your True Home – John O’Donohue
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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Morning in a New Land – Mary Oliver
Click on the link above to visit Mary’s Facebook page for this beautiful poem, as we embark on 2018. Here’s the text, for those who have difficulty following Facebook links:- ‘Morning In A New Land In trees still dripping night … Continue reading →
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Mirabai Starr in our inner worlds
“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 →
Posted in awakening, beauty, consciousness, empowerment, encounter, flow, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, love, metaphor & dream, Mirabai Starr, organismic experiencing, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, self, self concept, spirituality, transformation, trust, wonder
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The Bright Field – R. Thomas
‘I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realise … Continue reading →
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Be An Island – Tracy Cochran
Be an Island Click on the above link to visit Tracy’s own site for this helpful piece, which we found through Parabola Magazine on Facebook. Some of the fundamentals around mindfulness practice, presence and gratitude. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter … Continue reading →
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Sometimes – David Whyte
Depth and beauty from David. Here’s the text, for those who have trouble seeing Facebook links. SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, creativity, David Whyte, ecological, embodiment, encounter, flow, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, meditation, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, movement meditation, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, presence, rewilding, self, spirituality, surrender, trust, vulnerability, wonder
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Simone Weil on Grace
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and … Continue reading →
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