See things as they are. It seems to me there is so much chaos, so much contradiction and so much strife and war, hatred and sorrow. ...

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#WomensMonth: We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are . By Katja Hamilton. 9 Aug 2022. 9 Aug 2022. Trained as an ontological coach, a leadership ...

Award-winning poet and Buddhist teacher, Jane Hirshfield, talks about beauty, paradox, and the importance of spiritual presence.

Unfortunately, it can be hard to separate these things out, especially when anxious thoughts tell you that situations or reactions are your fault when actually they’re not.

And yet, because we start with familiar things, and then reveal how different they really are – how things are not as they seem – there's this sense of what do you mean, ...