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Winter: Our Challenge to “Get Out in It”

By Parker Palmer

Each year, on the winter solstice, we share this reflection on the season by Parker Palmer. In 1995 Parker wrote a welcome for the Fetzer Institute’s newly built retreat center, Seasons, which included a reflection on each of the four seasons. Here we excerpt his musings on winter in the Upper Midwest where he lives and where the Fetzer Institute is located.

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When Sadness Rages Like Fire

Throughout his profound spiritual awakening, the great Tibetan yogi Shabkar experienced immense loss resulting in grief marked by raw pain, a sense of disorientation, sadness, and tears.

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Pema Khandro
2020
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Poisoning of Spirit

Realizing the peak of one’s human potential is a divine grace promised when that wing is alive and spiritually alert. Its paralysis, however, means paralysis of the anatomical system of the human spirit; we briefly refer to this as the “poisoning of spirit.”

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Fethullah Gülen
2018
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