I wrote this poem many years ago and it is a personal favorite
Recently, during one of our week-long retreats, someone recited it in front of everyone by heart
It was one of the best compliments I have ever received https://t.co/KxLCOtEL9B
I wrote this poem many years ago and it is a personal favorite Recently, during one of our week-long retreats, someone recited it in front of everyone by heart It was one of the best compliments I have ever received https://t.co/KxLCOtEL9B
Love, we recognize that the fear of letting people down keeps us trapped and unable to heal and live a life that is our own.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Let us agree
for now
that we will not say
the breaking
makes us stronger
or that it is better
to have this pain
than to have done
without this love.
Let us promise
we will not
tell ourselves
time will heal
the wound,
when every day
our waking
opens it anew.
Perhaps for now
it can be enough
to simply marvel
at the mystery
of ho
... See moreJan Richardson • Blessing for the Brokenhearted
I seek intimacy with everything in life and it continues to be the thing that also scares me the most.
Amanda Norgaard • You'll Be Given Love
There is a poem I love, by Ollie O’Neill, called Everyone I Love is Capable of Dying: Everyone I love is capable of dying and I am in love with this fact, how unflinching it is, how lucky I am to be able to prepare for at least one abandonment. Nothing is sexier than the prospect of being left, and the dead do leaving so well. Love’s appeal is in i
... See moretell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. these, our bodies, possessed by light. tell me we’ll never get used to it. [richard siken]