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@LamaRod1
Nov 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I am praying for the light today. When I say that I am praying for the light what I mean is that I am deciding to become the light. I also accept that there is darkness in the world. I understand that the darkness I see in the world is also the darkness I see in myself. #Diwali
There is no darkness in the world that does not also abide in some form in me. When I acknowledge the dark, I am also acknowledging that I could not know the blessing of light without first naming the darkness. #Diwali
Therefore while I pray for and love the light I will also love the darkness because whatever I choose to authentically love I allow it to be free. I choose to let my darkness be free so it can stand next to the light. #Diwali
When they are standing together they will tell the true story of my life and in that truth telling I will accept both the light and the dark and know that the dark is only a place where the light has not yet learned to live. #Diwali
As I decide to become light, I am also praying that I develop the courage to learn to live in the dark places.#Diwali

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Aug 30, 2021
I have been asked what some of my self-care practices are as we move deeper into crisis. I would like to take a few days to share some of these.
Every morning I wake up and ask my body what it needs. This begins to determine how I structure my day. If I’m tired I pull back, if I have energy I push forward. I work at the speed of my body.
When we invite our bodies to be partners with us, then you will slow down. This is important. Crisis produces anxiety and trauma and we must tend to these by slowing down and not speeding up to bypass or outrun the discomfort.
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Aug 27, 2021
Be careful not to justify cruelty by calling it boundaries. Cruelty is easy. Real boundaries are harder because they are about freedom, healing, and compassion not just for ourselves, but also for those we are needing to refrain from.
I’m seeing so much cruelty not because we are inherently cruel but because we are all struggling to tend to what is becoming overwhelming personal and collective trauma, grief, and anger.
The root of cruelty is the absence of empathy for ourselves and others. When there is no empathy there is no compassion. When all this is missing, our interactions with others have the potential to be violent.
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Oct 2, 2020
An informal thread on anger and hate.

To begin with, though they have similar felt energies, anger and hate are not the same emotion. However, we could also say that anger does energize hate.
I understand anger to be the tension we experience between being hurt and our deep desire to tend to that hurt. Not knowing how to tend to the hurt we get swept up in the tension and start reacting to it. That reaction is the experience we call anger.
I believe anger is trying to take care of us. It arises out of a root hurt and that arising should signal that we need to devote energy to tending to the hurt. When we don’t do this tending then we lose agency over our anger and keep reacting to it trying to avoid the hurt.
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Sep 24, 2020
A thread about sorrow.

My sorrow is old and familiar. My practice has made it possible to slowly began holding and metabolizing not just my sorrow, but the sorrow of my ancestors, my community, the earth, and even the sorrow of my descendants. This is imperative work for me.
By metabolizing I mean practicing noticing the sorrow, naming it, owning it, experiencing it, and finally letting it go and floating it back into the spaciousness of my mind. I call this process SNOELL and can be found in my book Love and Rage.
Metabolizing sorrow is suppose to be uncomfortable. We are intentionally experiencing the discomfort. We are feeding the sorrow space so it has room to be in our experience. I must choose this discomfort in order to have the agency to be with the discomfort.
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Sep 19, 2020
A thread if u need support right now:

As we enter into this fall, we have to take time to do our mourning. Lean on & into our spiritual supports, our practice, our loved ones, our communities. Remember that you are not the only one hurting, afraid, and feeling lonely.
Let yourself cry. Imagine that you are crying with and on behalf of the world. Especially imagine crying for those who have forgotten how to cry. Cry for those who do not know how to cry, who let their unmetabolized pain turn into violence against themselves, u, and others.
Ask your sorrow what it wants. Imagine feeding your sorrow what it craves. Most often it is crazing to be noticed and tended to. To tend to your sorrow, feed it space by letting yourself experience it. Tell yourself this is just an experience and let yourself feel it.
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Oct 6, 2018
These are what my prayers sound like today: Blessed Mother, though I understand the nature of the relative and know this world to be like an uncomfortable dream, it is not my true home.
Please bless me that I may survive the violence and trauma of trying to wake up and may I endure the violence of helping others to wake up as well.
May I never forget that love will only set me free and when love is absent and no longer there to hold my despair, then I will be overcome by the despair which will give rise to unfathomable violence against myself and others.
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