quote: love becomes revolutionary
When we love even in the face of fear and rage, we can transform a relationship, a culture, and a country. Love becomes revolutionary. — Valarie Kaur
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quote: a place between
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, ‘a place beyond rightness and wrongness.’ — Marshall Rosenberg
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quote: silence and chanting
Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It’s like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged. It’s so easy to overlook the silence inside the music… and it’s that which is healing…
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quote: vulnerability
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will…
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podcast: discover the ancient wisdom of mantra
Tapping into a 5,000 Year Old Tradition Deva Premal and Miten are world-renowned exponents of sacred chants and devotees of the ancient tradition of kirtan. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST FROM UPLIFT CONNECT.
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quote: deeper and deeper
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. — Sharon Salzberg
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quote: mending the world
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. — L.R. Knost
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video: becoming indigenous
SCHUMACHER COLLEGE explores what it means to be Indigenous in this short video, “BECOMING INDIGENOUS“.
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quote: optimism
You can’t be an activist and a pessimist, as a pessimist gives up. A true spiritual activist is an optimist. The world is sustained and saved by love. There is no other way to save the world. — Satish Kumar
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quote: practice of peace
If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That’s the true practice of peace. — Pema…
