Rhiannon Bacon’s Reviews > A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation > Status Update

I could remain enraged at all of these people, historic and contemporary, who cause harm. Remaining enraged would not enhance my freedom or well-being, but rather create greater suffering for me, as well as toward those who encounter my bitterness and resentment.

Forgiveness involves vulnerability and nobility, courage and presence, and it moves on its own timeline; you can't force it.

Life is full of ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows, and our task as practioners is to be present to it all, without attachment or aversion.

Lama Rod Owens says, "The work to turn our attention back to the woundedness is this intense, profound path of transformation, which doesn't feel as good as responding to the anger because the energy of anger makes us feel powerful. Some of us, particularly if we're coming from communities where we feel marginalized, use that anger to feel powerful, to feel valid." There is this vulnerability to being with the pain.