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Unity of Being
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
— Pema Chödrön
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality.
Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits.
Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.
— Resmaa Menakem
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Like Zen Master, JK creates a tension between your viewpoint (which is the viewpoint of the modern materialism or form) and his viewpoint which is, shall we say, emptiness. JK hacks away at the stone statue of fixed form and concepts, without giving you anything to replace it. He deconstructs all you believe in. When thoroughly destroyed, with no…
