Tag: life

Mourning, loss and vision

This will aways be in my heart: that people will be offered meaningful options to toxic psychiatry and that a kaleidoscopic infrastructure of care will rise up as a result of our holding this vision and passing it on. Multiple options are offered that change as people grow and change. Healing is not stagnant...what we need changes daily and by the minute. That the system will be fluid and alive, growing and changing just like those who need healing within it. That the "system" will actually be the village. Real egalitarian community...a world in which every human being is equal to every other human being.  ...

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How can a body withstand this?

The Thing Is... to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills... Continue Reading →

I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful opera – except that it hurts

"It is joyful just as it is. I don’t believe there was anybody who intended it, but this is the way it is. James Joyce has a memorable line: 'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' And the way to wake from it is not to be afraid, and to recognize that all of this, as it is, is a manifestation of the horrendous power that is of all creation. The ends of things are always painful. But pain is part of there being a world at all … … [click on title for the rest of the post]

A lovely mama doing yoga while her kids run about. This is how life is.

Well, I've got two very busy kittens who like to get busy about me (and on me) when I do my yoga practice. This video is so beautiful it brought tears of joy to my eyes. Somehow it encapsulates something fundamental about life, I think... [click on title to read more]

many ways to live a good life

more life...

There are as many ways to live a good life as there are human beings...being healthy is simply about learning the necessary habits for our unique selves...and that is also going to be our unique challenge...I like to see it as the adventure called life. It necessarily dovetails with becoming aligned with the whole of life. This is how we find our place in the cosmos. If we listen and pay attention we find life is living us...we need only become aware...

Grief is the human angel in the world

Grief is the human angel in the world. Grief is not in the order of despair, depression, you know, “I give up.” Grief is the deep getting of it, and the deep being gotten by it. Grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than the one you wish for. So in that sense grief is a willingness to know. That’s what it is. Grief is the human angel in the world. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

How Life Organizes

Open systems not only maintain their balance amidst the flux, but also evolve in complexity. When challenges from their environment persist, they can fall apart or adapt by reorganizing themselves around new, more responsive norms. This, too, is a function of feedback--positive or deviation-amplifying feedback (also called "cybernetics two"). It is how we learn and how we evolved from the amoeba. But if our changing behaviors are not compatible with the challenges we face, and do not achieve a new balance with them, the positive feedback loop gets out of control and goes into "runaway," leading eventually to systems breakdown. … [click on title to read the rest]

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