Ask why to be a child,
Ask what to be an adult.
Ask why to be confused,
Ask what for clarity.
Ask why to be passive
Ask what to be active.
Ask why to mourn,
Ask what to build.…
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wisdom
The sky was lit
by the splendor of the moon
So powerful
I fell to the ground
Your love
has made me sure
I am ready to forsake
this worldly life
and surrender
to the magnificence
of your Being
–Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Poet, 1207-1273)
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The beginning of law is the expectation of everything. The beginning of gratitude is the expectation of nothing. The dance of law and gratitude is sobriety. Punishment must be delayed, in order to live.…
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No perfect partners no perfect families no perfect societies no perfect peace no perfect justice. Perfection is the enemy of happiness. Perfection is a delusion that creates misery. Perfection is the friend of isolation, anger, impatience, and disappointment. Perfection is an idol of nonexistence whose absence generates the worship of rage. Perfection obsession is a hard wired inherited habit of thinking whose offspring is alienation and depression , more so in the recipients than in the source. Gratitude is its opposite. Gratitude is its cure.
(Photo: Dr. Karen)…
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I recently wrote a cover article reflecting on the recent war in Gaza to the newsletter published by School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
…Practice is a messy, miserable reality that deserves its own independent study. What do we do in times of war? This has dramatically changed for me and many others in just the last year or two, where every war seems to be bringing individuals together online to a level of intimacy, collaboration, and care unprecedented, and others to a level of hatred unprecedented. Then there are shades of gray, where how you frame your disagreements, your texts, your cries, your screams, your pleas, your ruminations in the dead of night, all of it yields surprising communications across enemy lines, in all of the many and variegated enemy systems that overlap in international conflicts. A string of people from one side of the conflict becoming the only
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