From Disconnection to Connection: Panel with Kristin Neff, Sharon Salzberg, & Brother David Steindl-Rast Working with our antagonists begins with a willingness to step into new terrain and explore the zone between those we care about and draw toward us, and those we wall off and reject. The philosopher Peter Singer calls this process “expanding the moral circle” of those about whom we are concerned. Although altruism began as a biological drive to protect our own, he explained, it evolved into a choice to care for others. Our knee-jerk reaction may be to drown out someone else’s noise by shouting back or to return belligerence with unkindness, but ulti- mately this is an exhausting, vicious circle of conflict. Designating someone as the enemy fixes that person in an immutable identity. When we categorize others as bad (or good, or right or wrong), it enables us to feel secure. We know just where we—and they—stand. Or so we think. But life is more complex than that. Watch The Wisdom 2.0 Video: goo.gl/Fnm2Fb Photo by Carlos Mota Jr.
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