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Buddha and Grief
“When you take a life, you take your own.” ~Dune I wonder if compassion is something born out of suffering. To be present to those who are here now is maybe something we learn only because we have suffered through loss. To understand the suffering of another being is to understand your own. Through the…
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A Bowl of Rice
I woke up today with fragments of childhood pain and suffering lingering in my head, and then all of a sudden Jesus popped in there too. Whether he was a metaphor, or a man, or just one of the greatest stories ever told, I had him with me and my mind ran back into the…
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Silence is Violence
Silence is violence, and that violence doesn’t have to be shown on the outside. When I brought up issues with discrimination all I got was silence. For liability’s sake, someone looked into it, but nothing was ever really done to help me move forward. The silence was so bad I wanted to end my life.…