iii. What is it like to be human today?

What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?

Emotions are, first of all, a gift from God so that we can touch upon reality by a way other than our brain.

—Richard Rohr

All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement toward death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.

—Richard Rohr

Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?

—Richard Rohr

When you compromise your character, when you shrink, when you self-protect —

you lose energy, joy, and connection.

day 5

We don’t react to people - we react to a version of them shaped by our biases, filters, fears, hopes and expectations.

“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be

done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can

shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.

The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”

From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI

both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.

What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?

day 5

Creative Commandments, Good Conversation Starters, Small Kindnesses, an Interesting Pricing Experiment