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Tag: companionship

Featured Poetry

Khrystia Vengryniuk – Selections from “About My Old White Drake”

March 17, 2024March 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Celebrated Ukrainian poet Khrystia Vengryniuk offers three selections from her upcoming poetry collection, About An Old White Drake.

Tagged companionship, connection, Joy, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, translated, translation, Ukraine, UkrainianLeave a comment
John O Donohue
Book Bits

John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship

March 25, 2022April 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.

Tagged belonging, celtic, companionship, friendship, guide, love, recognition, soul friend, Teacher, Understanding1 Comment
CS Lewis
Book Bits

‘The Love Between Angels’ – C.S. Lewis on Friendship

February 21, 2020April 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Friendship transcends mere companionship to reach a more elevated goal - that of a shared vision or a common question.

Tagged companionship, CS Lewis, friendship, love, The Four Loves, truth4 Comments

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Francis Weeks – Unfinished
    In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
  • A Year of Kō: 9th Sekki
    9th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, COLEMAN DAVIS and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Julia Roberts – Pantry Door
    With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".
  • Colleen Morton Busch – Tend
    With her poem "Tend", Bay Area Zen poet Colleen Morton Busch offers a gift of wisdom, acceptance, and nourishment to readers.
  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER

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