Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding —Rumi
in Beautiful Foundations,Nature as Teacher,Poetry & Reflection,Practices and Resources
in Beautiful Foundations,Nature as Teacher,Poetry & Reflection,Practices and Resources
At this link you can watch a video on compassion that was produced, recently released, and generously shared by The International Center for Compassionate Organizations. For those who have participated in compassion-focused therapy sessions (e.g., via the mindful compassion group therapy program), some of the lines early on in the video will sound very familiar—I hope! Read more ›
David Whyte is a poet who has offered so much richness to me through his poetry, offered me feelings of inspiration, aliveness, resonance. Re-reading some of his writing recently, these lines from the poem, What to Remember When Waking, stopped me in my tracks. Read more ›
In this post, let’s turn our attention to music that has been dubbed the finest in middle-aged hip-hop. Let’s also turn our attention toward courage. Read more ›
I wrote a poem today. (More apt, I mostly jotted down words on a scrap piece of paper and called them a poem.) I decided to share the poem because to me it feels relevant to many people’s journeys toward self-acceptance and compassion, relevant also to a significant part of the work so many people do to support this journey in themselves and others.
…..sometimes it is necessary
Do you know your loveliness?
Some people do, some people don’t, some people need to learn about it, or to find a way to relearn or to reconnect.
Sometimes, this is the heart of helping work: to help reteach a thing–another human being–its loveliness. Read more ›