Every year the warm fruiting brambles of late summer draw me outside into the country lane behind the house to pick blackberries. This is something I did with my mother when I was a teenager. We would set out walking with our small buckets and find a field where the hedgerows caught the sun.
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by Linda Johnsen
01/03/2017
Here's a delicious fantasy. Imagine that the ancient Greek philosophers, those boring old men who founded our tradition of scientific rationalism, had also taught meditation. Picture them going on pilgrimage to India to study with the yoga masters there.
by Ben Collins
01/03/2017
Before I started my counselling training and my therapeutic journey I lived in a container of anxiety for most of my life. There was a part of me that clung to anxiety as it was all I really knew. I was a victim of Stockholm syndrome and anxiety was my captor.
by Dawn Cartwright
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[noun] a Hindu or Buddhist mystical or ritual text.
[mass noun] adherence to the doctrines or principles of the tantras, involving mantras, meditation, yoga, and ritual.
by Chloe Goodchild
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by Tony Bates
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