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Listening is the Work of the Heart
If our hearts aren't being scraped against something, always,
then why are we here?
We should hurt. And we should learn how to carry hurt. And we should learn how to hurt more inside of us, you know?
Because that allows us to be here and present and with others,
who are also hurting.
The things that scrape against our hearts...
are the things that remind us that we're still here, and we're present for what the human experience is.
My task isn't to arrive at the end of all this with my heart unsullied.
An unsullied heart means that I didn't use it.
- Anis Mosjani, Poet Laureate of Oregon
From Travelling Unalone
Do Not Let Your Astonishment Go Extinct
Do you live life as though you are going to die?
Do we need to have a terminal illness to start noticing life? Do we need to lose something we love to truly appreciate it? How do we wake up to this wonder of living, every single day? How do we celebrate this one and only precious life?
Life’s Two Truths : Holding Celebration and Mourning in our Hearts
It can be a tough gig, this being human, even at the best of times. Right now, it feels particularly difficult.
Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” - Rumi
Entering our Lives
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
- Anais Nin
Meeting with Joy
We evoke and nurture the joy in each other, as an honouring of the irrepressible human spirit in each of us, and a willingness to be delighted by a world that, in spite of everything, insists on being beautiful in a million extraordinary ways.
Space, Time and Love
"Nothing can be loved at speed"
- Michael Leunig
Many of us feel like we don't have the luxury, that we can't afford to go slow or else the whole life we've built will grind to a halt and come crashing down around us. But the truth is, when we feel like we don't have time to slow down is precisely when we need to the most.
On the value of REST
“You gotta know when to be lazy.
Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.”
Nicholas Sparks
To Stand in the Posture of Love
“The only way to facilitate the space where we do something different, somebody has to show up in a different posture - somebody has to show up in a posture of love.”
Dheeyah Kanh
Learning to Love the Sore Spot
As I come to grips (or to hold hands) with the ways that I have “fought” for peace and so-called love, I am realising how much of my experience has been about power over or power under. To position myself above or below, to avoid having to feel the painfulness of mine and others humanity. Ouch.