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Praying For Both Sides
The human condition is just too much for an animal to take.
- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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Those who escape hell, however,
never talk about it
& nothing much bothers them after that.
— Charles Bukowski
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One can see the pain of the Ukrainians and it breaks the heart, but at the same time it gives me deep sadness the hatred that this logically is generating.
Ukraine has to defend itself, Russia must stop that ruthless attack, but I just wish that the chain of hate is not generated that can only produce a escalation of violence.
The Dalai Lama expressed it clearly, first in a post I shared, he was holding a “no to war” shirt but in another publication I read that he prayed for both sides so that everything can be resolved soon.
And one thinks of invoking Sophia, the aspect of the wisdom of divinity.
— Jorge Pineda
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Yes, women like romance, prefer love to conflict and violence. Men, at least traditionally, always like war for it was a ticket to get out of their little village, to get out of poverty and see the world, but it taught men to harden their heart to another…
