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Kinship

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Pema Chodron, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that its truest measure lies not in our service of those on the margins, but in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship with them. In 1987 Dolores Mission…
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Addictive Helpfulness

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We may need to consider a little abstinence from our automatic, reflexive responses of being helpful to others.  For some of us, doing this may feel very threatening; to identify our addictions of helpfulness is to challenge the ways we…
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With That Moon Language

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Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us To connect. Why not…
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Wild Geese

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell…
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The Threshold

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Open the door to us, and we will see the orchards, We will drink their cold water where the moon has left its trace. The long road burns, hostile to strangers. We wander without knowing and find no place. .…
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