Poet in Profile: John O’Donohue
the patient to live, how he can live best with his illness, and what sort of alternative treatments he might consider to palliate his suffering.”
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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
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A mature contemplative practice places us squarely before the wound of the human condition, and we learn to meet our wounds in a new way. At first this is difficult, and there is great resistance. But gradually we learn something very precious under the tutelage of these wounds. We learn a compassion for others that replaces judging, self-loathing,
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