Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Quote by Albert Einstein
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Spiritual hospitality – helping others live more fully, to love more fully.
Our deepest calling is to love. Taking time to offer spiritual hospitality to the sick, the injured (mentally, physically, spiritually) those suffering makes it possible for healing. Having experienced suffering and struggle ourselves, we can help clear the confusion and offer comfort to face what is real. We can take our turn to hold the hand of someone who is sick, offer a hug for an exhausted friend or listen to their pain with an open and compassionate heart. In this way, we can lighten their pain all the while, knowing they must cross this threshold alone.
Thoughts and reflections based on a daily reflection from Mark Nepo BOOK OF AWAKENING Having The Life You Want By Being Present To The One You Have
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Illness and Wellness. What is the difference: I… WE
It is no coincidence that one key difference between illness and wellness involves “I” and “we”.
Illness of any kind—physical, mental, intellectual, social—generally isolates one from the “we”—from family, friends, and community. Illness also can reduce the “I”—one’s capacity to participate in the everyday living necessary to sustain and enhance these interpersonal relationships.
Wellness, by contrast, implies the reverse: one can participate fully in everyday living and engage actively with others, and one can depend on receiving strong emotional support from others. One’s wellness can be sustained and enhanced by one’s own voice and actions—a strong “I,” and by effective social support from family, friends, and community—a strong “we.”
Source: Behavioral Healthcare Executive https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/behavioral/blogs/ron-manderscheid/i-and-we-illness-and-wellness
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