Category: Postcards

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.     

Vivek Wadhwa 

Every minute with you was a gift.

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Thank you for helping me navigate the confusing and often frustrating process. I always felt taken care of and that my small project mattered.

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Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness … need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.

Parker Palmer, “A Hidden Wholeness”

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You listened with kindness and without judgement, then asked “what will you do with that knowledge?” 

The world is finding out!

Be moved by the words of (the other) Maggie Smith: poetry | twitter

This is what you look like from the outside:

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

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Your words came to me in a time of despair, showing me a world where love is boundless and being here, now, as I am, is enough. 

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What you taught me about biomechanics and trauma has changed my life. Thank you for your kind, gentle encouragement to at least try.

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May you be safe and protected. 

May you be well in body and mind. 

May you be happy just as you are.

May you be able to live in this world peacefully, joyfully, and with ease.

– adapted from the Mettā Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya. I, 208

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