Meditations
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Day 297 – Living with Reverence
Reverence is found in the sense of awe and ritual and gazing on a deeply crimsoned leaf or the deeply lined face of the one looking to us for relief. Continue reading
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Day 296 – How Love Brings Strength
One and God make a majority. Frederick Douglass When we unite with Love, we engage all the energy and strength we could ever need. When we are living in Love, our ego needs fall away. Since God is Love, we… Continue reading
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Day 290 – Do you love me?
None of us, I imagine, ever truly wants to be dependent on another. What healing, however, when we sense that even though I may need your physical intervention, what I want most is the healing that only your love can… Continue reading
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Day 289 – How do you create “The Healing Response?”
Be mindful of your own thoughts and expectations. Patients in a state of hyper-alertness, will search for and register cues from their physicians. Continue reading
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Day 288 – The Healing Response
“There is mounting scientific evidence that the doctor-patient relationship is an important factor in why patients get better.” – Eve Henry Continue reading
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Day 287 – In the Heart of New York
Recently, I spent three weeks, living an uninvited guest, at Mount Sinai Hospital. My mission was to be a caregiver for my brother John who has a cancerous tumor that tragically and painfully, is ravaging his body. Continue reading
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Days 283-286 – Love’s ROI
Love asks not for partial commitment but for total commitment, no holding back, without expectation of reward, response, or return. The moment I attach any of that to my gift of Love, the gift is diminshed and in the end… Continue reading
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Days 280-282 – Interpreting Love
Caregivers seeking to live Love need to be able to act not from fear of punishment but from love for the being who lying in pain before them. Continue reading
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Days 277-279 – The Way of Love
Whichever way love goes, That way becomes my faith, The source of beauty, and a light Of sacredness over everything. –Ibn Arabi, Sufi mystic (1165-1240) What do these four lines say to you about love? Do you agree… Continue reading
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Days 275 & 276 – “The Peace of Wild Things”
Right now, in this moment, the dying seek the immeasurable wealth of a caregiver with warm eyes and an open heart. Continue reading