Dear Friends,
This week Kaira Jewel will facilitate. We are delighted that she will be our teacher at our April 2017 retreat. We hope you join us. To register for our retreat please go here.
Kaira shares:
This Monday we will share stories of compassion that "interrupt injustice" and help "heal harm".
We will listen to true stories of how compassion, born from the deep understanding of interconnectedness, can transform hatred and violence at its root, so that it doesn't arise again. Gathering stories from war time, from the Civil Rights movement, from ordinary people armed just with compassion in the face of white supremacy. We will explore ways that we can see the good in every person, no matter how horribly they are acting. We will also look at what helps people filled with hatred and discrimination to connect to their humanity and love again.
In our sharing time, we will reflect on our own experiences of forgiveness, transformation, reconciliation, and healing.
Quote from Shambhala Prophecy:
With that wisdom you know that it is not a battle between "good guys" and "bad guys," because the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart.
AND
From The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."