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The Clearing

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Martha Postlewaite   Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how […]

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The Way It Is (William Stafford)

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William Stafford   There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; […]

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In the Sea of Others 

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Mark Nepo   It’s next to impossible to do this alone. We need the loving truth of others to be well. Inevitably, some come with us are forever changed while others watch as we’re forced out to sea. It’s the power of love that enables those who come along, where a language of experience is […]

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The Guest House

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Rumi   This being human is a guest-house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. still, treat each guest honorably. He may […]

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Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations

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Richard Wagamese, a member of the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations     “I don’t want to touch you skin to skin. I want to touch you deeply, beneath the surface, where our real stories lie. Touch you where the fragments of our being are, where the sediment of things that shaped us forms the verdant delta of […]

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When Someone Deeply Listens to You

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John Fox   When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, You are loved. When someone deeply listens […]