Yet Laws is quick to note that wonder doesn’t require distance. “People say, ‘Let’s go to nature,’ then drive five hours. But nature is in the spider in the corner of your apartment. Wonder is all around, all the time. To make life most alive, we must apprehend the daily presentations life gives us. That is the fabric of life itself.”
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Survivors of infidelity, abandonment or narcissistic abuse have long known it: the death of a deeply committed relationship can trigger trauma almost indistinguishable from PTSD. When betrayal, gaslighting, or emotional abuse are involved, grief becomes a labyrinth.
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Gandhi described ahimsa as an active force, not passive resistance. So what does active nonviolence mean in an age of digital division and performative rage?
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Equanimity doesn’t mean you stop loving. It means you stop controlling in the name of love.
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The Holocaust is the darkest example I know of freedom gone terribly wrong. And it shakes me to my core. How could a good God allow such suffering?
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