02/17/2026
Excerpt:
|“But as long as you’re avoiding your feelings, you’re denying reality. And if you try to shut something out and say, “I don’t want to think about it,” I guarantee that you’re going to think about it. So invite the feeling in, sit down with it, keep it company. And then decide how long you’re going to hold on to it. Because you’re not a fragile little somebody. It’s good to face every reality. To stop fighting and hiding. To remember that a feeling is just a feeling—it’s not your identity.” - Edith Egar, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life.
Watching what has unfolded in Minnesota invites a swirl of differing feelings. Horror, anger, despair, such huge grief as I think about the impact of the violence from our national government on everyone in that community, especially those who have been abducted and killed. I also feel awe, hope and inspiration as I see a community come together to add protection and mutual aid, a people living love in action to say “no” to the invasion and violence and “yes” to treating everyone in their community as valuable and worthy of love and respect.
The same is true when I see the Buddhist monks Walk for Peace and the communities of people on their route coming out to offer aid and solidarity. I see love in action.
I see this too in my office every week. People moving from reactivity towards themselves, their family members, their communities and their worlds to responsiveness that is rooted in deep values, integrity and kindness |
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