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PUSH 'N PULL - the dance of Vulnerability & Defensiveness

Posted by Carmen Loureiro Hadas on Friday, December 2, 2011, In : Musings 

Yet again I have been dancing through life with physical immobility due to recovery from surgery [a groin hernia].  I did not lightly go under the scalpel.  It was a challenge to find my way towards a peaceful acceptance of the necessity of surgery.  I entered the hospital as if in a dream, watching this story with its interesting characters play out.  My vulnerability was palpable to me, in this foreign world [I birthed both my daughters at home and thus had very little hospital [or even doc...


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What to remember when waking - poem by David Whyte

Posted by Carmen Loureiro Hadas on Sunday, October 17, 2010, In : Inspirations 
In the first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the day which closes the moment you begin your plans.

What you can plan is too small for you to live.

What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

To remember the other wo...
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