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I’ve been thinking alot recently about the process of commitment: the taking of vows that form a compass for living. I spent a couple of years under a Zen teacher and have ever since then harboured a fascination for the process of the taking of precepts in Zen practice. The Ten Grave Precepts Affirm life; [...] I’ve been reading Judith Pickering’s wonderful book “Being In Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love”. I’ve been long interested in our ‘heroic task’ as humans, that is, how we come to understand who we are. My own relationship, alongside Dr Pickering’s very sage guidance, been clearly illuminated for me that fundamental to [...] “all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well” I keep returning to Julian of Norwich’s beautiful saying. When I remember it, I turn it over, and rub away at it like a prayer bead. But I realised today that despite its deep attraction for me, [...] |
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