A Turbulent Era: A Warning

We live in turbulent times. Or maybe conflicts are just more visible with technology.

Either way, I urge you: strip away your ego when looking at conflict.

Reflect critically on the information you consume. For what you deem trustworthy, I beg you to sit with it.

In stillness.

In full, radical witness.

I sometimes struggle with this. Who wouldn't? When your environment paints the world in black and white, day after day, it's difficult to see the soul beneath the figure. Our souls are feeble.

But here is the danger: when you reflect with ego, you cannot reflect in clarity.

When clarity is gone, so is the human. You reduce a soul into a concept. An abstraction.

How can you truly grieve something abstract? You can't. You can only argue about it.

I am not asking you to take a side. I am pleading with you to remember what a human soul is. To recognize them as real.

Reflect not on what they represent, but on what they are.

If you truly witness, a soul cannot remain abstract.

Reflecting on conflict with clarity is one of the few defenses against evil.

Evil sits in the company of illusions, which we adorn.