Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
Destiny’s starting line can be hard to find; sometimes we need to borrow from someone else in our search. This is how I began to discover my own destiny. It was May of 1970 and Joe Thomas was visiting Seattle raising money for the work of the Ecumenical Institute. I’d spent the previous summer studying in Chicago at the Institute and I offered to be … Continue reading Discovering Your Destiny
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Compassion recognizes in another what we recognize in ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodrom In all my years no virtue has come to make more sense to me than compassion, the willingness to act for the well-being of … Continue reading Why Compassion?
Recently we attended an inspiring and interesting event at the Carter Center with former Irish President Mary Robinson, and saw a documentary about her life. After being the first female president of Ireland and ushering in a spectacular transformation of rights in that country, she became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and later participated in and chaired “The Elders,” an illustrious group of world … Continue reading Prisoner of Hope (by Eileen)
To enjoy the music in today’s post, please click the link above to go to the Just A Thought website, or Click Here. I dedicate this post to my Seattle Prep ’67 classmates who are an ever-present source of inspiration to me. “You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your … Continue reading When Suffering is Transformed
Important Notice We apologize for the technical difficulties with email and ask for your patience as we sort them out. Please know that it is very rare for us not to publish a post each week. If you ever miss an email you can go to the site, justathoughtbypat.com, to read the latest. *** We live in a time now in which questions abound — … Continue reading A Question (by Mark Pearson)