How to be Alone by Padraig O-Tuama

How to be Alone by Padraig O-Tuama

Dec 8, 2020 | Poetry

How To Be Alone by Padraig O’Tuama It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever. So you might as well start packing now. But, in the meantime, practice being alive. There will be a party where you’ll feel like nobody’s paying you attention. And there will be a...
The Word by Tony Hoagland

The Word by Tony Hoagland

Jan 31, 2019 | Poetry, Self-Compassion

Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli,” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a...
Compassion by Miller Williams

Compassion by Miller Williams

Jan 21, 2019 | Meditations, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

HAVE COMPASSION FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET EVEN IF THEY DON’T WANT IT WHAT APPEARS BAD MANNERS, AN ILL TEMPER OR CYNICISM IS A SIGN OF THINGS NO EARS HAVE HEARD, NO EYES HAVE SEEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT WARS ARE GOING ON DOWN THERE WHERE THE SPIRIT MEETS THE BONE...
How to be Alone by Padraig O-Tuama

The Guest House by Rumi

Oct 2, 2018 | Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

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...
Aimless Love by Billy Collins

Aimless Love by Billy Collins

Mar 31, 2018 | Mindfulness, Poetry

This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still at her machine in the tailor’s window, and...