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All About Love

Plant Hands

December 19, 2024December 18, 2024 Trent Thomson

Letting go as a pathway to new life BY SARAH WAYLAND SMITH

Tagged cobwebs, guilt, lemons, loss, nature, new life, nurture, parenthood, plant, regeneration, regret, renunciation, seeds, Trees, websLeave a comment
All About Love

The Dish

July 27, 2024July 27, 2024 Trent Thomson

A spiritual journey into raising a child with special needs. BY PATRICE BAVOS

Tagged Children, exhaustion, guilt, healing, love, parenting, special needs, stimmingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Saint Hubert and the Deer

January 30, 2022January 29, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Ryan Diaz's poem, St. Hubert and the Deer, offers readers a glimpse at the crucial moment in the life of Saint Hubert--the precipice of the choice between slaughter and mercy.

Tagged Christian philosophy, Christianity, God, guilt, innocence, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, remorse, Saint, saintsLeave a comment
Sharon Salzberg
Book Bits

Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

Sharon Salzberg on why the richest way of loving means starting with our very selves.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, guilt, Kindness, love, Loving-Kindness, Meditation, metta, remorse, self-love, TheravadaLeave a comment
Dan Branch
Featured, Featured Poetry

Dan Branch – The Carrying Strength of Water

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

This poem by Alaska-based poet Dan Branch is a reflection on the values and burdens of guilt. 

Tagged carrying, guilt, strength, Water, weight3 Comments

TOP POSTS

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  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • The Path That Leads Into the Mountains
    The Path That Leads Into the Mountains
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • A Blessing by James Wright
    A Blessing by James Wright
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron

- 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-

  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
  • Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection
    New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.
  • A Year of Kō: 2nd Sekki
    2nd Sekki poems by FRANCES SCOTT, IRENE APOSTOLERIS and SARAH GILL.
 

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