it’s easy to give a blanket disapproval of violence when your life is not being threatened on the daily or if your community hasn’t suffered the pain of oppression for five hundred years.
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.”
—Archilochus”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
—Archilochus”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
“Bruce Lee once said, “I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
“it’s easy to give a blanket disapproval of violence when your life is not being threatened on the daily or if your community hasn’t suffered the pain of oppression for five hundred years.”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
“The practice of meditation has often been secularized in the West, which means it is often taught without the ethical and moral teachings of the historical spiritual teachers who originally taught the practice.”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
“We need to be real about all of our idols, past and present. It is important that we do not romanticize them or put them on pedestals where they don’t belong. No one is perfect.”
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
― Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
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