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Cup o’ Courage: “True commitment always comes with loss”

November 6, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

“In Dante’s Divine Comedy the Roman poet Virgil accompanies Dante to the underworld. No one wants to be Virgil anymore — to ‘go into hell with Dante.’ But the willingness to explore with patience and empathy the actual experience of what people undergo, no matter how horrific, is indispensable in healing the emotional afflictions that haunt human beings. And we shouldn’t be surprised that recipients of such understanding will be capable of both remarkable resilience and extraordinary healing.” -Jeffrey Rubin, […]

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Cup o’ Courage: “See the opportunity, not the obstacle”

October 30, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

Thank you Toni P. Filia, of Maineville, Ohio for her submission to this new weekly series on courage and connecting. As Brené Brown said in her brilliant Ted Talk, courage comes from the “Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.” Cup o’ Courage is a weekly series that allows us to tell a bit of our story in a small but meaningful way.   […]

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Inter-being: a reflection on emptiness

September 5, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

I recently finished The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. It is a wonderful little book offering a clear framework on traditional Buddhist thought: a perfect little refresher that was easy to read on the subway. What made this book special, however, was Thich Nhat Hanh’s own personal teaching on how to transform suffering with Buddhist thought. It is a great book if you are interested in learning more about Buddhist philosophy and how to apply it […]

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Nepal: Windowsills & Doorways

July 10, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

“So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.” — Pablo Neruda “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.” — Rumi “But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems […]

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