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Category: inner strength

resting and fallow ground

16 March 202019 March 2020 Tanya Coburn3 Comments

I started writing about this topic last week whilst reflecting on my own need to go to ground for a while. This was before it seemed as though a bit of a rest has become a worldwide imperative.

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Posted in heart, inner strength, listen, ponder, trust, wisdomTagged green manure, retreat

deepening towards the heights

22 December 201717 December 2019 Tanya Coburn2 Comments

In singing high notes we are told, ‘To reach higher, you need to sense the depths’. We also need to be prepared to encounter all kinds of darkness, difficulty and challenge, to express what we lament or regret, as a source for our deep desires to reach upwards and outwards. Continue reading “deepening towards the heights” →

Posted in challenge, healing, heart, inner strengthTagged advent, rose

I pressed pause

25 October 201717 December 2019 Tanya Coburn2 Comments

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Posted in healing, inner strength, poetry, whimsy, wordTagged change

a list

16 August 201723 March 2020 Tanya Coburn4 Comments

DSC_0062New capacities are really growing.
Trust them.
You might even call them love.

Truly forgive others for not being what you would hope of them.
They are struggling.
They don’t know how to do it better just yet.
They have fear.
They need your compassion.

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Posted in feeling, inner strength, love, soul, trust, wabi sabiTagged healing, reminders

become a bit more…

18 April 201725 March 2020 Tanya Coburn1 Comment
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Graffiti on the wall in Prague, Ha’anala 76

And as for loving those whom we experience as enemies, some counsel from Brother David Steindl-Rast here.

And yes, you can try this at home, at work and in the world.

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Posted in challenge, healing, inner strength

trust speaks a foreign language

28 February 201723 March 2020 Tanya CoburnLeave a comment
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Trust speaks a foreign language I have yet to train
my tongue to shape, my ear to comprehend.
I’ve rejected trust as alien even when she longs for refuge
in those pockets of my soul where I’ve long harboured fear

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Posted in inner strength, listen, poetry, ponder, trust

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