Sublime

Collective practice of awareness can elevate our communities so that we fulfill the aspiration to a “Beloved Community” developed by Josiah Royce, a philosopher of the early twentieth century, and expanded upon and timelessly described in the speeches of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beloved Communities are envisioned as those that embody the

It is not the anger of Black women which corrodes into blind, dehumanizing power, bent upon the annihilation of us all unless we meet it with what we have, our power to examine and to redefine the terms upon which we will live and work; our power to envision and to reconstruct, anger by painful anger, stone upon heavy stone, a future of pollinating

Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…

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ground a facilitation practice in the values I believe are important for transforming the world we currently live in into a culture that can hold self-determination, collective dignity, communal responsibility, and individual accountability.

far from closing us off or shutting us down, anger can—note: can, but does not necessarily—in turn stem from and deepen our care and concern for the world and its well-being.

In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles

We are still mostly misdirected, turned away from the wisdom that is our inheritance. Joanna Macy speaks of the “great turning,” a collective awakening and shifting direction, away from the wanton destruction of this planet and each other, away from those practices of separation and competition listed above, towards life and abundance. I like this