Quotes from angel Kyodo williams

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Spiritual tradition is comfortable with paradox, whereas many political movements are not. But all truth is paradox. What it is to live in a space of transformative change is to engender greater and greater comfort with paradox. So that paradox becomes something that we not only acknowledge but also live more truthfully. We discover that Truth is relationship. And relationship is.

Much of what is being taught is the acceptance of a "kinder, gentler suffering" that does not question the unwholesome roots of systemic suffering and the structures that hold it in place. What is required is a new Dharma, a radical Dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies the systems of suffering, that starves rather than fertilizes the soil of the conditions that the deep roots of societal suffering grow in.

Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?

I think we're addicted to being triggered

I don't have a lot of words, but I have a lot of faith. I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.

Turning death and destruction to new ways of seeing and being is the best offering we can make to those we have lost.

We all feel shame when we're sitting on the cushion and stuff pops up in our head.

To lean into this aspiration, you must confront the fact that "whiteness" is a social ego as void of inherent identity as the personal ego, and you have identified with it as much as your very own name, but without being willing to name it.