By nchrisman
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Advice, resources, and suggestions for building friendships you can lean into—and have others lean on.
The creator of the viral hit “Empathy Cards” teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.
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Jeff Foster talks about healing in the deeper sense of the word-the present-moment remembrance of wholeness. He talks about how to sit with someone who is in pain, and invites us to stop trying to fix ourselves and others, and to start trusting the mysteries of healing.
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Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
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You can’t talk someone out of being in love with Darth Vader, and sadly, the worse it gets the more your friend might try to talk himself into trying to make it work because if there is a happy ending all the ways he’s had to abase himself to stay in the relationship will have been “worth it.
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Vienna Teng · Song · 2013
Posted By Noël Chrisman
David Whyte recites his own poem Start Close In.
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Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
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Humans are hungry. The only way to feed it is to love people and let yourself be loved.
dodie · Song · 2017
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . . It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
