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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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The House of Belonging – David Whyte

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit David’s Facebook page for this beautiful piece. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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Human

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

For the writer, this says all that is necessary. It illustrates what is (catastrophically) left out of account by the ‘perpetrator’/’victim’ binary mindset favoured in our cultures as they stand…. Thank you to Yaacov Darling Khan for posting this on Facebook, and … Continue reading →

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ee cummings on learning to love by being loved….

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Lovely and accurate. Thank you, Carol Wolter-Gustafson for sharing this on Facebook, and showing it to us. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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