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Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-eight)Sorrow: sometimes it is this that awakens us!

by Duane Kuss

Cold spring — I think the first time I can remember someone using the phrase the elephant in the room was during some group counseling sessions I participated in when I was going through my divorce. For me, at the time, the elephant stood for the fact that my wife, after two children together, twelve years of marriage, and five years of courtship before that, decided to come out of the closet and dump me for he...

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Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-six) Delusions of Separateness : we are part of a larger whole, interconnected to all things.

by Duane Kuss

Cold spring — Our thoughts can have a tendency to act as a veil over what we see preventing us from seeing with fresh eyes or beginner’s mind. What comes into view is identified by thinking, and then categorized a...

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Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-one) Mystic Experience : an experience of communion with Ultimate Reality

by Duane Kuss

Cold spring — Through continued practice of mindfulness one can experience moments of overwhelming, limitless belonging, and moments of universal communion with the Cosmos. Every human being can be a special kind ...

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Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Eighteen) Blessings come from care, troubles from carelessness.

by Duane Kuss

Cold spring — Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and lovi...

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