Reconnection

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“When will our consciences
grow so tender that we
will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis

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“If the world is ending ~ fall in love with every aspect before it is gone. Take this as a sign to finally let it hurt, and let it burn, and let it be beautiful all over you.
Try not to harden your heart.”
~ i.e. kali ~

Living in this world is more difficult and painful than it has to be for the simple reason that we learn early in life to disconnect from rather than to love others. That is a kind of laziness. We don’t want to bother ourselves with imagining the reality of other people. We can’t be bothered to imagine the suffering of nature…