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Loving the Beast Inside

Ya know the wildest thing is that after all the trees I planted,  all the kids I taught,  all the volunteers I’ve organized,  all the people I’ve counseled,  all the money I’ve donated,  all the votes cast,  all the ranting and raving,  all the writing,  all the researching,

all of it trying to make this world a little less self-destructive,

The most potent action I’ve found isn’t an action at all.

It‘s looking at the darkest corners of my being and letting my heart bathe it all in profound acceptance.

It sounds so cheesy but I swear to god it’s true.

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Our Histories, Our Selves?

History was my favourite subject at school. Until I was seventeen, I assumed that everything I read was fact. Just as the dates and names of kings and queens were beyond question, so too was everything else I had learnt. So it was profoundly shocking to read Edward Hallett Carr’s book What Is History? 

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On Healing the Divisions Within

Many spiritual teachings refer to the illusion of the separate self; the belief in being an isolated and deficient self seems to lie at the heart of our suffering. When we assume – or when life circumstances have led us to conclude – that we are unlovable, wrong, damaged or inferior, we are bound to suffer for as long as we continue to believe that assumption. Many of us know that suffering intimately, just as we know the relief that comes when we realize that we are not the person we have assumed ourselves to be.