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Learning from loss in our lives
A clear, cold night. Stars in the night sky. They are there, as they have been for people for millions of years, seemingly unchanging, but actually moving and evolving, just as we are. Surviving a loss...
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Working with things we wish were different
When meditating I use an App on my phone as a timer. When the timer elapses it rings a bell and a phrase appears on the screen. So for the last two years I have been greeted at the end of my practice...
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Life is a series of moments
It would be great if life proceeded from one moment of perfect happiness to the next, but for most of us, this is not the case. So, just as Dante did, we must proceed by another path, the path through...
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Spring cleaning, uprooting, not looking back, new growth….
Some thoughts, prompted by having to queue to get into the déchetterie – the recycling depot – this morning, which are in the same vein as some of the quotes over the past few days. The good weather...
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When we get hurt and damaged
Another post on working with the past. Typically, after tidying the garden over the weekend, the wind rose last night and scattered bins, leaves, twigs and nests, reminding us – and the birds – that...
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How to deal with the losses in our lives
In the Easter Story there are universal themes, such as the place of forgiveness in our lives, the role of hope when go through some things we cannot understand, the fight against abandonment and...
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Facing our pain
Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we...
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When things don’t work out
Sooner or later, everyone will face not getting what they want. How we respond to this unavoidable moment determines how much peace or agitation we will have in our life. In truth, this is the moment...
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Everything is coming or going
At any given moment, one part of our life is already gone and the other part of it has not yet happened. In fact, a great deal of our life is gone for good — everything up to this very point in time....
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Close to the music
Two short pieces from Seamus Heaney, probably the greatest writer of modern Poetry in Ireland or indeed anywhere in the English language, who died yesterday. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam. Both are...
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Life as it is
It would be great if life proceeded from one moment of perfect happiness to the next, but for most of us, this is not the case. So, just as Dante did, we must proceed by another path, the path through...
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Endings
Everything is meant to be let go of. Meister Eckhart A little more from Rilke, because sometimes he says it best. Changes of direction and endings are an inevitable part of our lives, but can be...
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Sunday Quote: Healing
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. Steven LevineFiled under: Loss Tagged: Acceptance, heart, impermanence, Ireland, Life, Loss, Meditation, Mindfulness
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