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...
Kindness

Kindness

Apr 27, 2015 | Inspiration

by Naomi Shihab Nye (written after she took a journey to Mexico) Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things. feel the future dissolve in a moment What you held in your hand. what you counted and carefully saved all this must go so you know how...
Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood

Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood

Mar 31, 2000 | Mindfulness, Poetry, Self-Compassion

Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I gain the embrace of the universe; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee...