Comments on: What else – Carolyn Locke https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/what-else-carolyn-locke/ Being Present | Responding with Compassion | Seeing Deeply Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kristine Mackenzie-Janson https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/what-else-carolyn-locke/#comment-179 Sat, 17 Nov 2018 21:06:35 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=4590#comment-179 In reply to Kathryn Gowland.

Lovely to hear how this landed with you Kathryn, and glad to hear you have refound a more peaceful place of acceptance. And yes, I love the symbolism and beauty of kintsukuroi! I hadn’t thought of it as a metaphor for mindfulness but I like the imagery of it… Go well, kristine x

]]> By: Kathryn Gowland https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/what-else-carolyn-locke/#comment-178 Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:34:19 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=4590#comment-178 This has been a difficult week, so allowing myself to be ‘a compassionate mess’ and allow myself be be broken has also given me permission for time for healing and self love both on a physical level and an emotional level. I have been working with pain from both of these aspects, allowing the layers to fall away like leaves fall from the tree in autumn and so have come to a much more peaceful place of acceptance.

I also love your reference to Cohen, “there’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” and I am reminded of the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold – kintsukuroi … maybe mindfulness is a way of using the golden light of acceptance and compassion to mend our broken selves… thank you for sharing your beautiful poems and words of illumination

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