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Tag: calmness

Featured Poetry

Kathryn Kimball – 432Hz

January 28, 2024January 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem "432Hz".

Tagged calmness, frequency, Interconnectedness, Meditation, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, vibration, Zen2 Comments
Jane Hirshfield
Poetry

Jane Hirshfield – All The Difficult Hours and Minutes

September 22, 2021March 8, 2023 Vanessa Able

In Hirshfield's poem, calamity turns to calmness when things turn into themselves, a principle that goes to the heart of transformative practice.

Tagged Buddhism, calamity, calmness, difficulty, humanity, Meditation, Poetry, Suffering, time, ZenLeave a comment

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