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Tag: feeling

Mary Oliver
Book Bits

The Poem Is a Place in Which to Feel: Mary Oliver’s Tribute to Walt Whitman

May 28, 2021May 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

In this stirring tribute to her shadow-companion and first poetic love Walt Whitman, poet Mary Oliver describes the experience of awakening to poetry as a door to the temple, a place 'in which to feel'.

Tagged completeness, curiosity, feeling, Inspiration, passion, Poetry, temple, tributeLeave a comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Shunryu Suzuki’s Waterfall – On Separation and Death

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

When a human life comes into being, a unique form comes together, like a drop of water when it is separated from the wholeness of the river as it hits a rock or falls down a waterfall.

Tagged big mind, Emptiness, essence, feeling, life-and-death, Mind, Nirvana, oneness, realization, separation, truth, Waterfall, wholeness4 Comments
E.E. Cummings
Book Bits

E.E. Cummings – A Poet’s Advice to Students

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

E.E. Cummings' short missive to young poets in which he urges confidence in oneself and authentic expression. We must distinguish between thinking, believing, knowing and feeling, the latter being the territory of real art and poetry.

Tagged Advice, E.E. Cummings, feeling, Knowing, nobody-but-yourself, poet, students1 Comment
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- BOOK BITS -

  • Tallu Schuyer Quinn
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    In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles
    Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on the use of the word 'trouble' in Irish language, and its relationship to grief and mourning.
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    Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.
  • 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.
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    Buddhist teacher Ayya Khema on the highest level of generosity: dedicating one's own life to the service of others.


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  • Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer
    New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".
  • Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
    Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
  • Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt
    With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.
  • Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising
    "Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.
 

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