The mentoring approach in Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature challenges convention. It requires that we who wish to mentor others get in touch with and trust in our own Coyote selves—teasing us out of our indoor worlds and leading us
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“The Cabbage White
The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has- who knows so well as I?-
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the acrobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.”
― The Complete Poems
The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has- who knows so well as I?-
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the acrobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.”
― The Complete Poems
“She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.”
―
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.”
―
“What I want in my life is compassion,
a flow between myself and others based
on a mutual giving from the heart. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
a flow between myself and others based
on a mutual giving from the heart. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“If you want to use force to protect your family, guard yourself from attack, fight against wrongdoing, prevent crime, and engage in a so-called “good war,” you have been co-opted by the siren song of violence.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
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