Love Your Enemies: Part 1: Video by Sharon Salzberg Taking action toward the good is the best way to expand our attention and dissolve the boundary of Us-versus-Them. Even simple things like working in a soup kitchen and helping feed the hungry, or having thoughtful conversations with the people next door, can ease feelings of separation from those who are unlike us on the surface. By aligning ourselves with issues larger than our own selfish concerns—“turning off the Me and turning on the We,” As Jonathan Haidt puts it—we transcend alienation through simple human contact. In the spirit of “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” more and more people start to seem like our neighbors, and we learn in real terms how to love them... goo.gl/GKzMdQ Illustration by Owen Davey
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:48:00 +0000
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