Tricycle Talks Remembering Our Belonging with Sebene Selassie
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May 21, 2025 
Sebene Selassie, a Brooklyn-based writer and dharma teacher with nearly two decades of living with cancer, shares her insights on love and belonging. She discusses how to cultivate loving-kindness as an antidote to fear and division, emphasizing the importance of addressing emotional struggles. The conversation explores the healing power of play, the complexities of belonging, and the transformative effects of mindfulness and self-care. Selassie encourages embracing pain as a part of life while finding connections that foster genuine compassion.
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Loving Kindness as Inner Power
- Loving kindness is a source of inner power that can dispel fear and hatred.
- It fosters a sense of wholeness instead of weakness or gullibility.
Center Love by Self-Care
- Centering love starts with self-care and regulating one's own responses.
- Extending loving kindness outward is authentic only when one is well in mind, body, and heart.
No News Before Noon Practice
- Practice "no news before noon" to protect your mental space and reduce overwhelm.
- Prioritize self-care so you can extend authentic loving kindness to the world.
