Fixing, Helping and Serving

By Rachel Naomi Remen

"Fixing and helping create a distance between people, but we cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected."

Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

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Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World

by Jane Hirshfield

If the gods bring to you
a strange and frightening creature,
accept the gift
as if it were one you had chosen. 

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Nonviolent Communication

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our compassion.  Through its emphasis on deep listening--to ourselves as well as others--NVC fosters respect, attentiveness, and empathy, and engenders a mutual desire to give from the heart.

--Marshal Rosenberg

Mindfulness

Mindfulness emphasizes living life more fully by being in touch with the present moment, which is actually the only moment in which we are ever alive, and, through awareness, learning to accept and honor and work with the full range of our emotions and thoughts without becoming imprisoned by them.

--Jon Kabat-Zinn

Lost

by David Wagoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you
are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
and you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
must ask permission to know it and be known.

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