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Patricia Bermúdez


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Patricia hosts a weekly Spanish-language zoom meeting (see Reuniones en Zoom).

Since I was very young, I have been in touch with my emotions and feelings. With that inner voice that is wise, that guides and orients us but that over the years we tend to ignore or even forget. That voice always told me that there must be some deeper meaning to our passage through this life than just running, doing and acquiring. With a satisfying and successful professional and personal life, that inner voice still told me that there was something more. And so it has been, that over the last 20 years with an increasingly disciplined and structured practice, meditation, mindfulness and Palouse have allowed me to find it. To connect with myself, to re-know myself and to discover that there is a different and genuine happiness that comes from within. I have accepted that life is an ocean full of waves. Before I wanted to calm down the waves and the storms. Now I have learned that waves are inherent to life, but I discovered and experienced that I can learn to gracefully surf them and be genuinely happy while I do it.

You can contact Patricia through the Contact page.

Desde muy pequeña he estado muy en contacto con mis emociones y sentimientos. Con esa voz interior que es sabia, que nos guía y orienta pero que con los años tendemos a ignorar o hasta a olvidar. Esa voz siempre me decía que debía haber algún sentido mas profundo a nuestro paso por esta vida que simplemente correr, hacer y adquirir. Con una vida profesional y personal satisfactoria y exitosa, esa voz interior aun me decía que había algo más. Y fue así como a lo largo de los últimos 20 años con una práctica cada vez más disciplinada y estructurada, meditación, mindfulness y Palouse me han permitido encontrarlo. Conectar conmigo, re-conocerme y descubrir que hay una felicidad diferente y genuina que proviene de mi interior. He aceptado que la vida es un océano lleno de olas. Antes quería apaciguar las olas y las tormentas. Ahora he aprendido que las olas son inherentes a la vida, pero he descubierto y experimentado que puedo aprender a surfearlas con mucha gracia y ser genuinamente feliz mientras lo hago.

Puedes contactar con Patricia utilizando la página de contacto.

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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