self-love Archives - The Dewdrop

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott – Love After Love

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Vanessa Able

A gentle and joyful invitation to intimacy and love towards ourselves by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Wild Geese runs like an exhalation, beginning with a lifting of the weight of religious culpability - in the prairies and the deep trees, there is no onus to be good nor to string oneself out in repentance.

Sharon Salzberg

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.

The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.