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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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    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
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  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
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  • Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
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