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Category: Book Bits

Barbara Brown Taylor
Book Bits

The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Vanessa Able

Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.

Tagged episcopal, journey, labyrinth, maze, no destination, path, Spiritual Practice, walking, walking meditationLeave a comment
David Hinton
Book Bits

What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

Tagged Chinese philosophy, crisis, earth, earth mother, ecology, environment, Great Vanishing, Original Nature, separation, Sixth Extinction, taosim, wild mindLeave a comment
Virginia Woolf
Book Bits

‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

Tagged Body, health, illness, interruption, language, Literature, Mind, perception, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Alan Watts
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Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'

Tagged acceptance, Chinese Zen, oneness, Taoism, The Tao, Zen1 Comment
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The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
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‘An Appropriate Response’: Christian Dillo on the Nature of Buddhist Wisdom

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

What is wisdom? How can what we know get in the way of true wisdom? How can we express wisdom in a chaotic and unpredictable world?

Tagged appropriate response, Buddhism, i don't know, negative space, not-knowing, presence, Wisdom, ZenLeave a comment
May Sarton
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Like Silt in a Flowing Stream – May Sarton on Solitude and Clutter

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude is the upshot of a journey into herself, into simplification and self-examination.

Tagged Journal, Loneliness, retreat, Solitude, Writing1 Comment
E.E. Cummings
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E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The

May 27, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

E.E. Cummings reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.

Tagged Advice, clearing, letting go, love, Poetry1 Comment
Tallu Schuyer Quinn
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Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life

May 3, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.

Tagged awareness, Death, Dying, glioblastoma, Gratitude, normal, ordinary, perspectiveLeave a comment
Padraig O Tuama
Book Bits

In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Vanessa Able

Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on the use of the word 'trouble' in Irish language, and its relationship to grief and mourning.

Tagged fasting, Islam, Practice, Ramadan, ritual1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
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    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
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    Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
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