“Justice, most of us believe, is when we send bad guys to jail. We imagine that we can point out the few who get caught and that then we can think of ourselves as a fair society. But we don’t dare convict the whole system of massive injustice and deceit. Maybe we are refusing toContinue reading “Be a Seed”
Category Archives: Current Affairs
A Piece for Peace
When hope feels thinand once againwe wake to headlines written in smoke,we ask the same old questionin a newer, louder voice. War. What is it good for? When the sky glows red in places we have never been,and yet somehow it is our own horizon burning,how do we handle it?How do we keep our heartsContinue reading “A Piece for Peace”
Intention Matters in Real Ways
“In the 1980s, during the peak of the Lebanon War, an incredible study was conducted. “It was hypothesised, based on many previous smaller experiments, that if enough people were connected in meditation, stimulating a ‘powerful field of peace’ within – that there would be a radiated influence of peace without, ie. one that affected theContinue reading “Intention Matters in Real Ways”
Change & Responsibility
(Taken from a letter written to a friend …) I understand the cyclic movement of change requires the dissolution of what is in order to make room for the new. Gardening, history, archaeology, and geology, among other studies, require this awareness of movement. Archaeology in particular is a good lesson in the ebb and flowContinue reading “Change & Responsibility”
To Be Peace
Please send thoughts and imaginings and prayers only of love and compassion to everyone right now. Hold in love those who are grieving, frightened, heartbroken, abused in any way, protecting the vulnerable … and also love for those who are angry, aggressive, broken inside, so alienated from their own innate holiness that they wield theirContinue reading “To Be Peace”