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Needs – part 1
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Needs – part 2
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Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts
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Miss Representation
“Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. It explores how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.”
Boys Becoming Men?
There’s Something Absolutely Wrong With What We Do To Boys Before They Grow Into Men “Be a man” is something we’ve all heard at one time or another, even a few of the women reading this right now. Being a “man” in that sense means something completely different to...
Anxiety
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Crow Having Fun
A Crow Repeatedly Sleds Down a Roof on a Plastic Lid A crow enjoys the winter snow by sledding down a roof on a plastic lid in this 2012 video. It’s having such a great time it picks up the lid, flies back to the top, and goes for...
Because Who Is Perfect?
You’ve never seen designs quite like this profound idea. It’s guaranteed to open your mind to beauty and gratitude.
On Vulnerability
Shame and empathy researcher Dr. Brené Brown presents on the power of vulnerability, from her research and book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Vulnerability isn’t good or bad. It’s not what we call a dark emotion, nor is...
The Secret to Learning
In 1915, aged thirty-six, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 of that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international...
Our Deepest Fear
Nelson Mandela 1994 Inaugural Presidential Speech Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,...
Religion is for the sake of divine union, not social order
This is so insightful. How often do we miss the true meaning and purpose of religion. Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation 27th September 2013 In the divine economy of grace, sin and failure become the base metal and raw material for the redemption experience itself. Much of organized religion, however,...
Wednesday 4th September, 2013
Meister Eckhart said, “The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
Abundance – Hiroshima Day
Hiroshima Day Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations “How can I be more holy?” We don’t have to make ourselves holy. We already are, and we just don’t know it yet. In Christian terminology this inherent holiness is called the Divine Indwelling or the gift of the Holy Spirit. The awakening...
The Importance of Listening
We don’t teach meditation to the young monks. They are not ready for it until they stop slamming doors. Thich Nhat Hanh to Thomas Merton in 1966
Sunday 4th August, 2013
The separate self is the problem, whereas most religion and most people make the shadow self the problem. This leads to denying, pretending, and projecting instead of real transformation into the Divine (Transformation). The Fifth Theme, from the Seven Underlying Themes of Richard Rohr’s Teachings
Saturday 3rd August, 2013
When we find what we were not looking for, there is deep joy. The joy of discovering what we are not looking for. The journey not the destination is what is important. Bishop Vincent Long from homily at Pat Mara’s Deaconate.
No desires, no goal, no seeking …
Thursday 25th July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 7: The goal, if there is one, is out of sight. I see no thing, nor do I intuit where it is leading me. I am in the darkest dark I have known. Not a dark humour but a darkness of clarity. To arrive at a goal I...