If you want proof of that, look at everything that you wanted to change about yourself for the last 10 years that hasn’t.
I guarantee it is something you tell yourself that you “should” be doing.
I wrote this poem many years ago and it is a personal favorite
Recently, during one of our week-long retreats, someone recited it in front of everyone by heart
It was one of the best compliments I have ever received
a lot of the time- not always, but pretty often- i have this vague uneasy feeling that i’m ‘out of alignment’. in music terms, maybe out of tune. in chess terms, maybe not playing good moves. and its an interesting puzzle to sit with this feeling
I love humans so much, they're so fucking cool & interesting & cute. I could spend the rest of my life thinking about & talking about & studying humans and I'd never get bored. There's so much to them. There's so much. They're all so different and unique and weird and beautiful
getting so close now!!! i'm telling you, it's happening. Don't be shocked pikachu when you find out you have way more in common with your enemies than you realize. I'm calling it now
I highly recommend having a folder on your desktop titled 'you are loved', where you put in screenshots of lovely things people have said to/about you. here are some of mine
Huge new result:
Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist.
That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.
Let's dig in🧵