Hello to new friends from~ Brooklyn, Ranson, Oakland, LA, Chicago, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Berkeley, Stockholm, Richmond, Berlin, Gloucester, Melbourne, Baltimore, Singapore, Amsterdam, Kerala, Sydney, Leicester, Santo Domingo, Maplewood, Naples, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Portland, Philadelphia, London, Port Angeles, Rotterdam, Joshua Tree, Omaha, Mexico City, Beirut, Sacramento, Habana, Vilnius, Kingston, Tulungagung, a special hello to the special creature who said they’re from The Ocean, and to the person who doesn’t know where they’re from…I feel you. I’m truly humbled to be joined by all of you across the world.
Peace Hawa. These messages, your write up, came right on time for me as these things always do. I understood and agree with it all as my heart has been on this wavelength for over a decade. And YES to the part about no longer feeling shame for not 'fitting in' when we know the more fulfilling desire of flourishing in our own community playground. I have studied Akashic Record reading for years and am hoping to have one assist me in breaking through even more of my subconscious programming when the time is right. Thank you for the mantra, thank you for your light🙌🏽🔮💛
My father was a medic for the Mujahideen, and he met your Uncle, rip, at Kohi Safi. He said that he went up there three times and met him once, so it was either in 1984 or 1985.
Beautifully written Hawa! Your article makes me think of Rumi's quote: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
It's much harder to look inside and realize that we are the result of so much conditioning and programming and to even recognize that. I feel like one of the things I have been working on doing actively has been untangling who I really am, from the way my parents raised me, from social conditioning and programming that has been my birthright by virtue of having been born into this capitalistic, patriarachal society. And what am I not looking at? What privileges am I actively (but not aware of) seeking to protect?
That quote from Rosi Braidotti was chilling. And yes, capitalism is totally built on scarcity, it thrived in a post world war time, when the world felt so scarce and dangerous. And I, like you, no longer want to live in scarcity! We are abundant! Thank you for pulling your words together like this!
Deep gratitude for your words, Hawa! I let this sit in my inbox for a while until I opened it today. My feelings swirled around inside as I read your message. I feel connected to your cycle of grief as I'm in the wake of cracking into myself for the 100000000th time.
I appreciate this, Hawa! I sat down to read your offering during an evening of noisy solitude, and my spirit tingled in response to the ideas you expressed so beautifully here. Those warning signs! (Who else noticed that Theo, played by Clive Owen, had to trek through peak Apocalypse rubble wearing flip-flops, in Children of Men?)
D.T. Suzuki describes *manas* (which Thich Nhat Hanh refers to as the mind that cogitates) as a double-edged sword: destructive when it clings to the duality of samsara or potentially a weapon of liberation that cuts through illusion. Sounds like you are working with the latter! (Also very much feeling the tenderness and wonder unlocked by looking deeply at one's own ancestral and nuclear-family flesh wounds). xo Jungwon Kim
Peace Hawa. These messages, your write up, came right on time for me as these things always do. I understood and agree with it all as my heart has been on this wavelength for over a decade. And YES to the part about no longer feeling shame for not 'fitting in' when we know the more fulfilling desire of flourishing in our own community playground. I have studied Akashic Record reading for years and am hoping to have one assist me in breaking through even more of my subconscious programming when the time is right. Thank you for the mantra, thank you for your light🙌🏽🔮💛
Hi Hawa!
My father was a medic for the Mujahideen, and he met your Uncle, rip, at Kohi Safi. He said that he went up there three times and met him once, so it was either in 1984 or 1985.
Beautifully written Hawa! Your article makes me think of Rumi's quote: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
It's much harder to look inside and realize that we are the result of so much conditioning and programming and to even recognize that. I feel like one of the things I have been working on doing actively has been untangling who I really am, from the way my parents raised me, from social conditioning and programming that has been my birthright by virtue of having been born into this capitalistic, patriarachal society. And what am I not looking at? What privileges am I actively (but not aware of) seeking to protect?
That quote from Rosi Braidotti was chilling. And yes, capitalism is totally built on scarcity, it thrived in a post world war time, when the world felt so scarce and dangerous. And I, like you, no longer want to live in scarcity! We are abundant! Thank you for pulling your words together like this!
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Deep gratitude for your words, Hawa! I let this sit in my inbox for a while until I opened it today. My feelings swirled around inside as I read your message. I feel connected to your cycle of grief as I'm in the wake of cracking into myself for the 100000000th time.
I appreciate this, Hawa! I sat down to read your offering during an evening of noisy solitude, and my spirit tingled in response to the ideas you expressed so beautifully here. Those warning signs! (Who else noticed that Theo, played by Clive Owen, had to trek through peak Apocalypse rubble wearing flip-flops, in Children of Men?)
D.T. Suzuki describes *manas* (which Thich Nhat Hanh refers to as the mind that cogitates) as a double-edged sword: destructive when it clings to the duality of samsara or potentially a weapon of liberation that cuts through illusion. Sounds like you are working with the latter! (Also very much feeling the tenderness and wonder unlocked by looking deeply at one's own ancestral and nuclear-family flesh wounds). xo Jungwon Kim