
Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval
Tara Brach
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Engage Spirituality - Three Primary Ways That We Respond to Suffering
i often think, in an evolutionary sense, that our human brain is tripled in volume over the last several million years. And a major cause of this has been that our social capacities for ampathy, for bonding, for compassion, for they serve our species. So not only do we have them, these pro social qualities, they're actually hard wired in for our surviving and flourishing. We are getting more fluid and more tolerant. It's happening. We're widening our sense of belonging beyond differences in race or religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, many domains. The evolution of consciousness over the longer stretch of history, less violence, more evidence of our capacity for love. i think for me
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