war and peace.

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.” ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

I do not owe my opponents my affection, warmth or regard. But I do owe myself a chance to live in this world without the burden of hate. “I shall permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” Said Booker T. Washington. It reminds me of a line from Toni Morrison’s novel Love: “Hate does that

events are events on their own, and it’s our objective narration of them that can make it untruthful and thus hurt us. — Marcus Aurelius in Meditations

“It's a perspective that calls for reconciliation that begins within, acknowledging the other that resides in each of us, which, if not addressed, perpetuates the external and internal patterns that re-produce conflict.” (https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/issue/view/526) How can we address the other that resides in each of us? The other perspective