#relinquishment

[ashenbot]

she rested the crown that had once held dominion over all the world into the earth at her feet, and gave up the solitude of a god

[ex-foster]

It's such a pet peeve of mine when adoptees argue that adoption is so unethical but then turn around and say "if you're going to adopt, adopt an older foster kid". Really? Right after your rant about how unethical adoption is you're just going to offer up older foster kids?

[comicbookcovers]

Quittin' time, part 4

[ypnhot]

I made another thing. This group didn't really have a name that I could find, but it comes up a lot in the suttas as being things that support the development of various enlightened states of being and wisdom.

Seclusion can be physically secluding yourself to meditate, but also seclusion from sensual desires or unwholesome things, etc.

Dispassion happens when as you develop wisdom and start seeing things through a lens of impermanence and permanence, you start to lose interest in impermanent things like sensual pleasures and existence and rebirth, etc.

Cessation is what happens when you reach the various levels of enlightenment and the fetters are "cut off at the root, made like a palm-tree stump that can come to no further existence in the future." so those beliefs and desires completely cease to be and cannot arise again. (the symbol is based on a palm tree root structure)

Relinquishment is when you are able to fully let go of things, truly freeing you from them.

[cuwalli]

I get that we're all angry, but listen:

PLEASE do not use relinquished children as your political pawns, even hypothetically. It is DEHUMANIZING. They are people, not parables. Your adopted and fostered friends CAN hear you.

[sherrieeldridge]

Why I'm "Pro-Adoption"

Why I’m “Pro-Adoption”

I am 100% pro-adoption. In order to communicate this, I’m using two words: relinquishment and adoption. When the First Mother signs off parenting rights, the term “relinquished” is apropos. This word refers to pre-adoption pain and trauma. However, when your child is placed, this is adoption, and it is positive, for it provides a forever home for an orphaned child. Of course, there are bad actors…

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[julianmaddock]

Spiritual direction at the end of the world (4)

Spiritual direction at the end of the world (4)

What God is waiting for is not a right conclusion to a matter but for our suppleness in falling into His hands for Him to work in us.Benedicta Ward, Discernment: A Rare Bird Where shall the word be found, where will the wordResound?T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Spiritual direction at the end of the world There are all sorts of helpful pointers to how to live in the face of concerns about ‘the…

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