“Don't think that you and the world are two separate things. Anything you do for yourself, you are also doing for the world. Practice, the art of suffering.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Peace, compassion, and well being, begin with ourselves. When we can reconcile with ourselves and embrace and transform our suffering. We are also taking care of the world.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“If your suffering, sorrow, or depression has been going on for some time, there must be something that is feeding it.

Every day, we are consuming our thoughts, TV, movies, music, conversations, and even the collective consciousness and environment around us, which may be toxic.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Nothing can survive without food.

This is just as true for suffering as it is for love.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“When you look deeply enough, you're able to see the deep roots that may be ancestral suffering passed down to you.

This helps you transform the suffering.

Reducing the pain and despair you feel.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Many of us may have experienced moments of acute sadness, fear, or despair, that we don't understand. We don't know where the feelings come from.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

The goal always was erasure.

Facing the truth of what they/we have done is more painful the cruel systemic deletion of histories, ideas, physical spaces, & reverse colonization. When those erasures don’t solve their pain they’ll erase your essence.