"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." ― Madeleine L'Engle
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth." ― William Faulkner
Staying in the MiddleAs a way of working with our aggressive tendencies, Dzigar Kongtrül teaches the nonviolent practice of simmering. He says that rather than "boil in our aggression like a piece of meat cooking in a soup," we simmer in it. We allow ourselves to wait, to sit patiently with the urge to act or speak in our usual ways and...