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Sunday, 1 June 2008 — peter
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Monday, 7 January 2008 at 13:33
(from a message sent to peter’s personal email):
Thank you again for your writing …while you invite response, I think there are many like me who read it frequently and walk away with something to warm our hearts for the day.
Monday, 25 February 2008 at 12:12
Dear Peter,
Thank you, thank you for last Thursday’s retreat day of sitting with other Mayne Islanders under your wise guidance. When it was over, I felt a deeper connection within and to everyone else and a little taste of boundaries dissolving.
I’ve just read your recent blog posting (and what a generous and beautiful gift your site is) and was particularly struck by the following quote: “One of the hardest things we must do sometimes,” writes Parker Palmer, “is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to ‘fix’ it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.”
Just minutes prior to this I was reading the daily quote in my calendar “The Heart That Loves Is Always Young” and the entry for February 25 is: “What is love…but a friend who has remained beside me and never once removed his hand.” (Hugh Prather).
All I can say is both quotes are personally timely and deeply meaningful and again, Peter, thank you so much.
Namaste,
Rena