Mirror: language

Marshall B. Rosenberg:

If my child is not picking up the room and I say, “You are lazy,” lazy is an enemy image. If my life partner is not meeting my needs for intimacy and I say, “You are insensitive to my needs,” insensitive to my needs is an enemy image. When we say that some people are “terrorists,” that’s an enemy image. Enemy images turn people into things. When we see the other person as a monster, all we want to do is to punish them. This type of language disconnects us from what’s alive in one another, disconnects us from life

Nature

could it be, to assume there is hierarchy in nature is a fundamental misunderstanding?

nature persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

inoma

Weak and strong

I looked deeply and saw: what is usually regarded as strength, is often weakness. And the other way around.

Inoma

Genuine communication

formulating personal opinions as personal opinions, not general truths, allows space for another view.

inoma

Better ways

There are better ways to live,
in accordance with nature.

Great Spirit Thank You 

for showing us these ways
and for helping us to walk them.

Understanding

awareness is. it means
understanding that
whenever anger arises,
intelligence is lost.

inoma

Pupil asks rebbe

And the pupil asks the rebbe, “Why does it tell us to lay these words upon our heart? Why doesn’t it tell us to put them in our heart?” And the rebbe answers, “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and the words can’t get it in. So we just put them on top of the heart. And there they stay. There they stay until someday, when the heart breaks, they fall in.”  

through Jacob Needleman
 
 

Support

"When we surrender to the inherent mystery of how support is truly given and received, as teachers and therapists we recognize the hugeness of what we don't know. This in itself is immeasurable support for those who look to us. Spirituality meets.."

Gangaji

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Teachers and therapists or whoever we are.