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Remembering the words of Saint Francis of Assisi: where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Contemplating this can reveal deeper insights to assist in reprogramming our psychological reflexes. For example, a person is never only their opinion, and every opinion has a half-life. Opinions are like clouds - appearing to be permanent at a glance. Pay more attention and one can perceive the numerous forces continuously reshaping it.
Every profile picture is a doorway to an infinite interior, even for that individual. I go on uncovering and peeling layers around myself in pursuit of self-knowledge. Our task—especially in seasons of heat—is to refuse the fixation of the single facet. To meet any neighbor as more than a position is moral hygiene.
Social media really strips us of our humanity and edits our our fullness. When we restore dimensions, we restore possibility: the chance that a disagreement can be a bridge, that truth can travel without cruelty, that our commonality can be a place for transformation.
The first day of winter is known as the solstice and is the shortest day of the year. But it also indicates the return of the light and each day from that moment will be longer until the first day of summer.
This episode explores the problem with the notion of absolute good and evil with metaphors and music as tools for getting at the heart of things.
"What is a good man but a bad man's teacher. What is a bad man but a good man's job." -Lao Tzu
(With intro music by E. Fink and episode artwork by Dove Dahlia)