When Things Fall Apart

'We want to put out our poison.  Instead, we can connect with basic human restlessness, basic human aggression...Then we can send out a sense of space, which further slows things down.  Sitting there, standing there, we can allow the space for the usual habitual thing not to happen. Our words and actions might be quite different because we allowed ourselves time to touch and taste and see the situation first.'

From When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron

We are All Connected

The older I am, the more I see how interconnected everything is.  Today I'm not talking about the deeper way we are connected, or the illusion of separateness that has ensnared us, but the simple external web of connection that links us all together.