“You are not alone across time.”
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“You are not alone across time.”
When we are able to transform our suffering, we do so not only for ourselves but also for all our ancestors and descendants. Knowing that you are doing this with them and for them can give you the courage and strength you need to overcome even the most difficult moments. And we know we are cultivating a good continuation body for the future.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
Maybe, if we carry our temple with us, remember our humanity and seek each other out with a passionate longing and humility, we might leave the underworld having learned the lessons of the dead that weave it.
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
We have been battered by modern times into obsessive problem solvers, but as life pares us down into only what is essential, it becomes clear that the deepest sufferings of heart and spirit cannot be solved, only witnessed and held.
Mark Nepo • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
When we encounter ourselves on the shore of the unreal, together we implement new habits of self and communal compassion, and patience, and inclusion, so that we can safely travel into what we really think and feel. It requires that we tell the truth—or rather, what we believe to be true in the season of life we are in. Even if our voices are shaki
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