…chest to just be there, it revealed itself as a deep grief for all the times love had been possible—with friends, family, teachers, lovers—and I had held back from its…
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When We Don’t Make Anything “Wrong”
…what allowed him to be so accepting. He responded, “It doesn’t feel like anything is wrong. I feel grief and some fear about it all going, but it feels like…
Blog: Connecting with Our ‘Soul Sadness’
…grieve our unlived life. This grief can be so painful that we tend, unconsciously, to move away from it. Even if we start to touch our sadness, we often bury…
Transcript: Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart – Transcription
…like meditation, you set the intention and the anchor in your body. And, especially when strong emotions are there like anger, fear or grief, what I’ve found, in taking a…
Working With Difficulties: The Blessings of RAIN
…or experience the swelling of deep grief and whisper “yes.” You might use the words “this too” or “I consent.” At first you might feel you’re just “putting up” with…
Article: Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness
…how pervasive their self-aversion is and how long their life has been imprisoned by shame, it brings up a sense of grief as well as life-giving hope. Fear of deficiency…
Living with Courageous Presence
…I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the…
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Blog ~ Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty (text and audio)
…Grief? Shame? As you continue to investigate, you might find it helpful to ask: What am I believing? If this leads to a lot of thinking, drop it. But you…
Living with Courageous Presence
…so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of…
Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:12 min.)
…peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars…
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (19:34 min.)
…rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief….
Blog: The RAIN of Self-Compassion
…(uncertainty for my future) spread through my chest, followed by an upwelling of grief at losing my health. The sense of self-compassion unfurled fully as I mentally whispered, “It’s all…
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. – Chapter One
…and it provides warmth and nourishment for life. All kinds of weather systems pass through it—happiness, sorrow, fear, excitement, grief— but like the sky itself, presence can hold them all….
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