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Forgiveness
Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn’t deserve it.
When someone offers you trash and you decline, who does the trash belong to? You or the person offering it? The same goes for negative comments. If you refuse to take them, they are stuck with the person who gave them.
Nature
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. - Schweitzer, Albert
Authenticity
“There’s magic in being seen by people who understand – it gives you permission to keep going. Self-expression sometimes requires other people. Becoming ourselves is a collective journey.” - Alok Vaid-Menon
“People call me naive and idealistic and I say ‘Thank you. Who broke your heart?’ Everyone was wonderful once upon a time, and then got told to be reasonable and I find that profoundly unreasonable. I would often be told that I looked ridiculous. I would try to correct for that like it was a stain that I could somehow remove: ‘No, I’m legitimate. No, I’m reasonable.’ But then eventually you began to wonder why you have to be legitimate in order to be worthy? ” - Alok Vaid-Menon
“Just as a thought exercise, I entertain how I have so much in common with someone rather than focusing on what we have different. And the thing that is most common for us as humans is that we’re all gonna die. That actually is the barometer of our humanity – it's that we’re mortal. And when I remember that, I can have compassion for everyone’s decisions. Death is really terrifying, so people invest in fantasies like the gender binary, because it allows them to feel sense of security with impending death.” - Alok Vaid-Menon
“Heaven is a practice, not a promise. Why wait? Build it here, now.” - Alok Vaid-Menon
Justice
"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are." – King Solomon
(Still a work in progress, please be patient.)