Poems
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson
Allow by Danna Faulds
Awakening Rights by Mark Nepo
Awareness by John Astin
Beannacht ("Blessing) by John O'Donohue
Fire by Judy Sorum Brown
The Guest House by Rumi
The Journey by Mary Oliver
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
My Balm by Jane O'Shea
On Silence by Barbara Hurd
One Morning by Rosemerry Whatola Trommer
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson
Start Close In by David Whyte
Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
The Way It Is by William Stafford
The Word by Tony Hoagland
Allow by Danna Faulds
Awakening Rights by Mark Nepo
Awareness by John Astin
Beannacht ("Blessing) by John O'Donohue
Fire by Judy Sorum Brown
The Guest House by Rumi
The Journey by Mary Oliver
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
My Balm by Jane O'Shea
On Silence by Barbara Hurd
One Morning by Rosemerry Whatola Trommer
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson
Start Close In by David Whyte
Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
The Way It Is by William Stafford
The Word by Tony Hoagland
Quotes
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” - Maya Angelou
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin
"A person should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them." Sigmund Freud, from Sigmund Freud: Life and Work by E. Jones, 1955
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." -Albert Einstein
"Mindfulness [is] the servant of the awakening heart, and compassion [is] the key transforming agent of the mind." -Paul Gilbert
"The curious paradox of life is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, 1961/1995.
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom." -Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.
“When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sounds perverse, the way I recovered a sense of wholeness was not by meeting someone or by falling in love, but rather by … slowly absorbing … the fact that loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive.” -Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
"It is not down on any map; true places never are." -Melville
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke
"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable ... that important talk can help us know that we are not alone." -Fred Rogers
Click here for an excerpt on attunement from Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell's book, Parenting from the Inside Out.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin
"A person should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them." Sigmund Freud, from Sigmund Freud: Life and Work by E. Jones, 1955
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." -Albert Einstein
"Mindfulness [is] the servant of the awakening heart, and compassion [is] the key transforming agent of the mind." -Paul Gilbert
"The curious paradox of life is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, 1961/1995.
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom." -Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.
“When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sounds perverse, the way I recovered a sense of wholeness was not by meeting someone or by falling in love, but rather by … slowly absorbing … the fact that loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive.” -Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
"It is not down on any map; true places never are." -Melville
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke
"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable ... that important talk can help us know that we are not alone." -Fred Rogers
Click here for an excerpt on attunement from Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell's book, Parenting from the Inside Out.