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Freedom Beyond Hatred How safeguarding inner liberty equips us as contemplative activists

Freedom Beyond Hatred 💖
#CarlMcColman

The Spreading There’s a place in my brain where hate won’t grow.—Naomi Shihab Nye, “Jerusalem”  Sometimes a seed of compassionslips into my brain and lands in a placewhere before only anger could grow.These see…

#RosemerryWahtolaTrommer

Sometimes a seed of compassion
slips into my brain and lands in a place
where before only anger could grow.
These seeds appear
when I stop seeing humans
as only our actions and start
seeing all of us as walking wounds.

To Become a Mystic It's Not a Performance, It's a Transformation: From the Inside Out

To Become a Mystic

#CarlMcColman

"Take Us Home by Another Way" by Christopher Grundy YouTube video by Christopher Grundy

'Cause we'll pave the way with justice going home by another way...
A good tune and words for our times

Well deserved.

Yes.

I voted for Hillary Clinton. I believe she's going to tell those clowns a piece of her mind.

Thank you for this.

Please do watch her statement. Wow...

Wow... 🤮

Actually, I do know how to do this In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.

Actually, I do know how to do this

TURN OFF THE LIGHT In the shadowed corridors of the Jesuit curia in Rome, Pedro Arrupe faced a storm. The 1970s post-Vatican II era had unleashed waves of defections—priests and brothers slipping away like sand throu…

#PhilipChircop 🩷

“How can I not be an optimist if I believe in God?”
#PedroArrupe

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
#RabindranathTagore

Thank you for this🩷

BREAKING: The Houston Chronicle just endorsed our campaign for the US Senate!

They were caught off guard by the strength of the resistance because the very concept of citizens standing up for their principles is alien to them, and they still can’t believe it’s real.

American Democracy Will Not Die in Darkness Which means that it might — might — survive

American Democracy Will Not Die in Darkness
#PaulKrugman

The obvious answer is that there isn’t any strategy. These people aren’t evil masterminds — evil, yes, but masterminds, no. They’re just thugs too crude and undisciplined to control their own thuggishness.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Israeli Restrictions at Rafah Crossing Could Kill Thousands Awaiting Medical Evacuation Israel's restrictions at the Rafah crossing are preventing thousands of sick Palestinians from receiving life-saving medical treatment.

“We know that patients have died basically waiting for evacuation, and ‌that’s something which is horrible when you know just a few miles or kilometers outside ‍that border help is available."​

My mom is the only reason I’m on The View.

She’s a fighter — she showed me how to stand up to the bullies.

That's what I've done in the Texas Legislature, and that's exactly what I’ll do in the U.S. Senate.

Four images of woven shawls with stylised and symbolic images of animals and birds

Tlingit weaver Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

AOC 👍❤️

Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more French prosecutors have launched a search at the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X. This is part of an investigation into alleged offenses, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

Dégueulasse.

Une perquisition est "diligentée dans les locaux français" de la plateforme X par la section de lutte contre la cybercriminalité du parquet de Paris. Ces investigations sont menées avec l'unité nationale cyber de la gendarmerie et Europol dans le cadre d'une enquête ouverte en janvier 2025.

See the Sun expand and contract like a pufferfish — January’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Fantastic photos 🩷

💗

oh wow...

So true :-)

I love this...

BECOMING THE SEA She wanted to see the sea at all costs. She was a salt doll, but she didn’t know what the sea was. One day she decided to leave. It was the only way to satisfy her need. At the beginning of h…

#philipchircop