by Kate | May 7, 2021 | Love, meditation
“Compassion,” says meditation teacher Susan Piver, “is the ability to hold love and pain in your heart at the same time.” Andrew Boyd agrees. “Compassion hurts,” he writes, “when you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything.” He...
by Kate | Nov 25, 2020 | kind promises, Love
Who are we? Certainly not them! They think so oddly who do they think they are? How dare they? But wait don’t they feel the same way about us? So maybe we can go beyond us and them and expand our us to this roiling human yearning but why stop there? Mama polar...
by Kate | Nov 18, 2020 | kind promises, Love
We are emerging from a very contentious election in the US. I am saddened as people around me talk about the other side as though they are evil, ignorant, and not worthy of any respect. I recently read Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, in which he encourages...
by Kate | Nov 25, 2019 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Love
When we think about generosity, we usually think about giving things, including money. Having a generous nature when it comes to objects is helpful in a relationship, but I’m thinking of a wider definition here. Yes, I want to be able to borrow your extra umbrella,...
by Kate | Nov 19, 2019 | kind promises, Love
We like to think that love comes without limits. Yet I find myself wanting to write about boundaries as I think about love this month. Love comes with a strong sense of attachment and, humans that we are, attachment can lead over into one party wanting to control the...
by Kate | Nov 13, 2019 | kind promises, Love
Kristin Neff does research and teaches on the topic of self-compassion. She has identified three components of self-compassion. First (she says), we need mindfulness. We need to develop that witnessing part of our minds that understands we are telling ourselves a...
