Like the poisonous gas from an old volcano, our senses are being offended by rage-baiting computer-jocks.
Like the poisonous gas from an old volcano, our senses are being offended by rage-baiting computer-jocks.
The burden is on those of us with a heart that knows what it means to be alive.
What is most precious is invisible to the eye.
The burden is on those of us with a heart that knows what it means to be alive.
What is most precious is invisible to the eye.
Where is the pain?
What is the quality of this pain?
What makes it better? What makes it worse?
And then, best of all:
How can I help?
Where is the pain?
What is the quality of this pain?
What makes it better? What makes it worse?
And then, best of all:
How can I help?
We start by finding the pain.
Where is the pain?
What is the quality of pain?
When did it start?
What makes it better?
What makes it worse?
We start by finding the pain.
Where is the pain?
What is the quality of pain?
When did it start?
What makes it better?
What makes it worse?
And men should speak to other men in this way and be unashamed.
You do not have cause to feel shame when you are checking in with your brother to see if he is alright.
Be ashamed by seeing pain and doing nothing to ameliorate it.
And men should speak to other men in this way and be unashamed.
You do not have cause to feel shame when you are checking in with your brother to see if he is alright.
Be ashamed by seeing pain and doing nothing to ameliorate it.
When in truth, words of compassion should be spoken every day.
To speak words of compassion, you must have peace.
And to have peace you cannot be in pain.
When in truth, words of compassion should be spoken every day.
To speak words of compassion, you must have peace.
And to have peace you cannot be in pain.
Our common, everyday, spoken English does not have enough words or or time for compassion.
Compassion is not for the spotlight, we think. (We are lead to believe.)
Our common, everyday, spoken English does not have enough words or or time for compassion.
Compassion is not for the spotlight, we think. (We are lead to believe.)
If greatness is measured by a philosophy that was found of t-shirts in the 1990s:
"He who dies with the most toys wins."
Sounds like something a coked-up CEO wrote.
If greatness is measured by a philosophy that was found of t-shirts in the 1990s:
"He who dies with the most toys wins."
Sounds like something a coked-up CEO wrote.
Both things are true when you let Love lead you.
Both things are true when you let Love lead you.
It is folly to believe that anyone is better than you. It is folly to believe that you are better than anyone else.
It is folly to believe that anyone is better than you. It is folly to believe that you are better than anyone else.
You'll be happy for any little scrap you can get. And when your baby is so hungry, and her eyes look like the light in them as dying, you'll be happy as long as it's not your kid.
You'll be happy for any little scrap you can get. And when your baby is so hungry, and her eyes look like the light in them as dying, you'll be happy as long as it's not your kid.
That way, all your friends who run the companies that profit off of stress, poverty and inequality can fatten up like bloodsucking ticks.
That way, all your friends who run the companies that profit off of stress, poverty and inequality can fatten up like bloodsucking ticks.
Long-term stress = pain in the body
Put a whole herd of animals in long term fight or flight mode= get a lot of human beings addicted to painkillers
Long-term stress = pain in the body
Put a whole herd of animals in long term fight or flight mode= get a lot of human beings addicted to painkillers
It's really easy to cause pain by putting people into long term fight or flight mode.
Anything that causes long-term term stress eventually becomes pain in the body.
It's really easy to cause pain by putting people into long term fight or flight mode.
Anything that causes long-term term stress eventually becomes pain in the body.
Sometimes the animal fights back, or hides, or sometimes the animal freezes & pisses on itself.
Sometimes the animal fights back, or hides, or sometimes the animal freezes & pisses on itself.
Long-term fight or flight mode increases cortisol.
Lots of cortisol makes everything heightened.
So even a person gently tapping you on the shoulder feels irritating.
Long-term fight or flight mode increases cortisol.
Lots of cortisol makes everything heightened.
So even a person gently tapping you on the shoulder feels irritating.
If you get hit with the terrible news that someone you love has died, you're gonna be feeling another kind of pain.
If your safety is threatened every day, your nervous system is gonna anticipate pain, even when you are safe.
If you get hit with the terrible news that someone you love has died, you're gonna be feeling another kind of pain.
If your safety is threatened every day, your nervous system is gonna anticipate pain, even when you are safe.