Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Merton’

Work, Identity and Recovery – 1

Written by john on March 19th, 2009
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Understanding what work means for my sense of personal identity, for a basic acceptance of who I am, has been a central issue in making progress in recovery over this past year. Yet it seems strange that both my identity and feelings of self-worth should so depend on what [...]

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Oneness, Depression & Jill Bolte Taylor

Written by john on July 26th, 2008
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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 experience [...]

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Spiritual Paths to Healing – 3

Written by john on July 5th, 2008
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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 can [...]

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Spiritual Paths to Healing – 2

Written by john on May 10th, 2008
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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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