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A Beautiful Silence
Kay Redfield Jamison entitled her biographical account of living with bipolar ‘An Unquiet Mind’. An apt descriptor if ever there was one. Over the last year or more, I have experienced the unquietness...
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Forest Contemplation with Thomas Merton
I love to spend time in the forest. It lifts my spirits when I am depressed and struggling to cope; it calms my mind when I am in a hypomanic state and thoughts come too quickly. I’ve tried to...
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A Return to Silence
I have just returned from a short retreat at Bethlehem Abbey in Portglenone, Co. Antrim. Immersed in a Cistercian tranquillity, the troubles that have assailed my mind for so long evaporate; in such a...
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From a Cistercian Monastery
As I struggle with illness, I have found my time spent at Bethlehem Abbey in Portglenone, Co. Antrim, to be enormously therapeutic. Last week, I spent a morning in the library and whilst there wrote...
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Forest Meditation with Thomas Merton
I love to spend time in the forest; it calms me while hypomanic and uplifts me when I’m depressed. I’ve uploaded a short meditation to youtube containing some of the Cistercian monk, author and poet...
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