Evolvenetwork

I saw this the other day and guffawed. Like might be my first time I got to actually live that verb. Ha! But the number of times I’ve heard and experienced empathy misapplied like this, right? This is just one of many misapplication of empathy that makes real listening, real suspension of judgement, and real connection matter so much more. Not sure who made this meme, but thank you for your service! 😂

Today's meditation from Thurman. On totally fu***ng up the haters by shutting down the doorways of their hatred with your burnin, scorchin love that cannot be torn down. Like the chorus to a Lizzo song drowning out some refrain from an old Dixie hymn, your righteous lovin as a political act, as a magical act in the style of Trapwitch or Big Empress Energy, just lovin the s**t out of someone dishing hatred, indifference, or some other aggression fully expecting it back:

"It is a wondrous discovery when there is disclosed to the mind the fact that there may be no direct and responsible relation between two human beings that can determine their attitude toward each other. We are accustomed to thinking that one man's attitude toward another is a response to an attitude. The formula is very neat: love begets love, hate begets hate, indifference begets indifference. Often that is true. Again and again we try to mete out to others what we experience at their hands. But that presupposes that the relation between humans is somehow mechanical, as if each person is utterly and completely separated...There is a profound ground of unity that is more pertinent and authentic than all the unilateral dimensions of our lives. This a man discovers when he is able to keep open the door of his heart. This is one's ultimate responsibility, and it is not dependent upon whether the heart of another is kept open for him. Here is a mystery: If genuine love for you, it by-passes all your hate and all your indifference and gets through to you at the center. You are powerless to do anything about it. You may keep alive in devious ways the fires of you your bitter heart, but they cannot get through to me. Underneath the surface of all the tension, something else is at work. It is utterly impossible for you to keep another from loving you."

He’s talking to you.