19| a manifesto: dear internet friends, I’m burning alive.
The intersecting catastrophes unspooling all around us don’t offer an escape from reality, but an intensification of it. So we have a choice: (1) Accept this reality. Accept the full toxic soup of conditions we’ve put ourselves in, as well as the thick, messy, profoundly human dramas playing out amidst it. And awaken to the burdens — of grief,
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... See moreThey want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve
This is what’s happening to me. What my mind couldn’t understand. As Tchiht Naht Hanh said: The most important thing we can do; is to hear within ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.
This incredible crisis for conscious life on Planet Earth can be understood as that. We’ve been thinking that we were consumers, we’ve been thinking that we were