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Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Christian Dillo
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write: Christian Dillo

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Christian Dillo on a contemporary Zen approach to awakening and what meaningful transformation actually looks like.

Tagged aliveness, Awakening, Buddhism, effort, psychotherapy, Qigong, right effort, Suffering, Taoism, transformation, western philosophy, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

R. B. Simon – Shorn

April 10, 2022April 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet R. B. Simon's "Shorn" is a concise self-reflective piece, in which the narrator desires to be unburdened and liberated of decades' worth of burdens.

Tagged burdens, Freedom, liberation, Poem, poet, Poetry, self-awareness, self-reflection, transformation, unburdeningLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marsha Warren Mittman – No Name

October 17, 2021October 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With her poem No Name, Marsha Warren Mittman details the transition from urban to rural living, and coming to embrace and become one with new experiences.

Tagged acceptance, connection, emergence, Identity, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, oneness, Poem, Poetry, self-acceptance, transformation6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Seeking Stars

September 12, 2021September 19, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

"Seeking Stars" by Susan Coultrap-McQuin is a meditation on growing older and inhabiting the autumnal season of our lives.

Tagged aging, animals, change, connection, Growing old, growth, journey, Poem, Poetry, transformation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Brian Yapko – My Hunger for You

August 29, 2021August 27, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With his poem My Hunger for You, Brian Yapko presents a desperate and generally unsuccessful search for God.

Tagged Advice, divine, failure, God, humility, nature, Poem, Poetry, searching, transformationLeave a comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes

April 19, 2021April 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shunryu Suzuki on our inability to accept the truth that we and everything around us are in a state of constant flux.

Tagged acceptance, Buddhism, change, Everything changes, impermanence, Suffering, transformation, transience, Zen, Zen Mind Beginners MindLeave a comment
Louise Gluck
Book Bits

The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art’s Restorative Power

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Louise Glück's essay condemns current trends of pathological optimism, as well as the tendency towards 'the pornography of scars.'

Tagged art, Culture, healing, loss, Optimism, pain, respite, Suffering, transformation1 Comment
GK Chesterton
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G.K. Chesterton – The Convert

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Vanessa Able

G.K. Chesterton's 'The Convert' describes the aftermath of a transition that has taken the poet from an upside-down world onto a shining white road of peace and clarity.

Tagged Catholicism, clarity, conversion, epiphany, peace, Poetry, rebirth, transformation2 Comments
Lion
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When the Lion Roars

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

An ancient Buddhist teaching and sutra about the power of the call back to the truth of ourselves.

Tagged Buddha, devas, dharma, disruption, lion, power, Sutras, teaching, transformationLeave a comment

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