While preparing for our upcoming winter retreat this past weekend, I wanted the final takeaway to be a connection between our own internal work of healing and the healing of the world and I literally wrote down:
I want to contend that this is the beginning of the healing of our world, when we begin to integrate the conflicting pieces within ourselves. When we can love the worst parts of ourselves, we begin to heal from the pain and the trauma in our past and can “say I love you to those who persecute me because I see them in me too” (from Alok Vaid-Menon's poem "We are Free"). When we heal the binaries within ourselves, we begin to heal the divisions in our world.
Then I read your blog post and it resonated with this deep mystery I knew to be true within me. I'll probably use your content as the main text for one of our sessions :).
While preparing for our upcoming winter retreat this past weekend, I wanted the final takeaway to be a connection between our own internal work of healing and the healing of the world and I literally wrote down:
I want to contend that this is the beginning of the healing of our world, when we begin to integrate the conflicting pieces within ourselves. When we can love the worst parts of ourselves, we begin to heal from the pain and the trauma in our past and can “say I love you to those who persecute me because I see them in me too” (from Alok Vaid-Menon's poem "We are Free"). When we heal the binaries within ourselves, we begin to heal the divisions in our world.
Then I read your blog post and it resonated with this deep mystery I knew to be true within me. I'll probably use your content as the main text for one of our sessions :).
<3
Rachel
"When we heal the binaries within ourselves, we begin to heal the divisions in our world." Oooof... Thank you, Rachel for sharing!