Posts Tagged ‘peacefulness’

Oneness, Depression & Jill Bolte Taylor

Written by John on July 26th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by absolutwade at Flickr The story of her stroke and remarkable recovery are now well-known, through her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, through the remarkable 18-minute video of her TED talk and through multiple interviews and articles in national media. Though Jill Bolte Taylor emphasizes her professional [...]

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Tags: brain, depression, Jill Bolte Taylor, language, mind, mystic, neuroscience, oneness, peace, peacefulness, spirituality, Thomas Merton, vision
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Spiritual Paths to Healing – 3

Written by John on July 5th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by windiepink at Flickr I keep remembering those amazing moments, all too brief, when I had the sense of stepping out of time, schedules, worry, depression into a different kind of space that was free of all that. It was an opening to peacefulness, calm and a sense of being that I [...]

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Tags: depression, God, Jill Bolte Taylor, peacefulness, self, spirituality, Thomas Merton, vision, wholeness
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Spiritual Paths to Healing – 2

Written by John on May 10th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by fdecomite at Flickr I’ve found that there is a longing for spiritual closeness just as there is a longing for an emotional bonding to another human being. But it is a form of longing, of human need, that I spent years ignoring. I’ve written here about longings arising from depression and [...]

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Tags: Catholic, depression, enlightenmnet, God, peacefulness, prayer, religion, self, spirituality, Thomas Merton, vision, wholeness
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