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The Empathy Cure
Our insight and our language are inseparable from the times in which we live. For many years now, the East has followed the West down the path of technological and material development, to the point of neglecting its own spiritual values. In our world, technology is the main force behind economics and politics, but those in the forefront of science have begun to see something similar to what the spiritual disciplines of the East discovered long ago. If we can survive our times, the gap that separates science and spirituality will close, and East and West will meet one another on the path to discover true mind. Those in whom the seeds of this important endeavor have already been sown can start working towards that convergence right now, using their own daily mindful lives.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Indeed, when you live from your recovered Feminine, directly from your body-wisdom, from inward life of Soul, the feminine instinct and its dreams, vision, and intuitive insights, you will be a loner; you will be ridiculed and even bullied by people who are literally afraid of you. Why? Because you are feared by masculine Nature. Because you are a deviant, you don’t live the way they live, prostrating before admired patriarchal institutions and its personalities. To be a Lamp onto yourself, to follow your Star is forbidden in our patriarchal culture, but remember, it is your…
