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How to Heal by Jeff Foster
Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced. It happens when the conditions are right. When there is just enough love,...

Lucy Chan
Oct 22, 20241 min read
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Fundamentalism by Naomi Shihab Nye
Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...

Ethan Pollock
Oct 10, 20241 min read
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Rumi 1207-1273
Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...

Ethan Pollock
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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The River Cannot Go Back by Kahlil Gibran
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...

Ethan Pollock
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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How to work with grasping
How to work with grasping - in the moment Whilst theory can be helpful, the beauty of these teachings is that they are meant to be...

Lucy Chan
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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When your comfort zone becomes a prison
Dear friends, There’s uplift in my heart as I write to you, it has been a while! I’ve returned from a period of personal retreat where...

Lucy Chan
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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Quote by Tara Brach
One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we respond. How we...

Lucy Chan
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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The Summers Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...

Ethan Pollock
Aug 13, 20241 min read
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How to turn greyscale mode on your phone
One way to support less phone use is using a grayscale filter to eliminate the visual attraction of colors. The brain is naturally drawn...

Ethan Pollock
Aug 10, 20241 min read
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How to Meet Shame with Compassion
Based on the teachings of Chris Germer (founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion programme): 3 key paradoxes that we understand when we...

Lucy Chan
Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Jealous of a Pond by Rabia of Basra (c. 717-801)
When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...

Ethan Pollock
Jul 16, 20241 min read
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Quote by Alice Walker
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...

Lucy Chan
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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Please Call me by my True Names- Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

Ethan Pollock
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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Quote by Pema Chodron
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...

Lucy Chan
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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Quote on inner listening by Kaira Jewel Lingo
"This listening to ourselves is what we want to be doing everyday – how am I doing, what's happening in my mind, my body, my feelings....

Lucy Chan
Feb 6, 20241 min read
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Li Bai (701-762)
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...

Ethan Pollock
Jan 25, 20241 min read
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Keizan Jokin
Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...

Ethan Pollock
Jan 9, 20241 min read
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The Five Mindfulness Trainings (Plum Village tradition)
The Five Mindfulness Trainings The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are...

Lucy Chan
Dec 19, 20234 min read
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Watching The Moon by Izumi Shikibu
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu (Original Language...

Ethan Pollock
Dec 7, 20231 min read
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A Great Need by Hafiz
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...

Ethan Pollock
Nov 14, 20231 min read
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