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Derry Deringer


Derry Deringer

A practice in contemplation began for me while traveling solo through Spain and the Andean region of South America. That wasn’t my intention or even in my thoughts, but contemplation naturally arises in long periods of silence. This was 23 years ago now. I had quit a good job and career to follow a nagging urge to “see the world”. That fourteen months abroad is the basis for who I am today.

My spiritual practice ramped up about three years ago. It was then that I began daily meditation, hosting weekly meditation and mindfulness groups, mentoring a few individuals, lots of reading and journaling, and integrating intentional living into my work, family, and community life.

For me, the most interesting aspects of meditation and mindfulness are practices and growth in myself and others to a more loving, more kind, more curious, and more compassionate world today than yesterday. I love hosting a weekly group at Palouse Mindfulness, because it keeps me curious and facilitating that in others. A message I like repeating these days: Every moment is a miracle!

I’d like to conclude with Frank Ostaseski’s Five Invitations:

  1. Don’t Wait.
  2. Welcome Everyone. Push Away Nothing.
  3. Bring Your Whole Self To The Experience.
  4. Find a Place In The Middle of Things.
  5. Cultivate Don’t Know Mind.

You can contact Derry through the Contact page.
Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
     - Parker Palmer

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you may not even know about.

You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
     - Jon Kabat-Zinn

When all that we understand of self and world comes together in the center place called heart, we are more likely to find the courage to act humanely on what we know.
     - Parker Palmer

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . . even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness.
     - Thomas Merton

You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
     - Rumi

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
     - Martin Luther King

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our changes are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
     - Mary Oliver

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Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
     - Parker Palmer

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you may not even know about.

You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
     - Jon Kabat-Zinn

When all that we understand of self and world comes together in the center place called heart, we are more likely to find the courage to act humanely on what we know.
     - Parker Palmer

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . . even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness.
     - Thomas Merton

You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
     - Rumi

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
     - Martin Luther King

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our changes are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
     - Mary Oliver

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