What Are the Practices and Mindsets That Can Be Helpful to Navigate Loss, Grief, Change and Transitions? And What Does It Mean to Make Good Compost as We Close Ideas, Forms, Collective Creations That No Longer Serve Us?
While Gopal acknowledged that “catastrophe is inevitable,” he followed it right up with, “but change is also inevitable; transition is inevitable.” And he laid out some strategies to guide us forward. But how do we proceed at the heart level? How do we break down the walls inside our psyches, reconnect with our neighbors, and take those first steps
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When we mourn the extreme levels of suffering in the world together as a community, we can be held and hold others as we each go through our own personal cycles of grief, or what the Germans refer to as Weltschmerz (a deep sadness about the imperfection of the world). Such communal solidarity can get us through our darkest moments and ensure we red
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