“The root of suffering is the illusion of our separateness. We’ve forgotten that we’re all interrelated.”
In 1999 Margaret Wheatley and Pema Chödrön met to discuss how we can learn to develop the courage that modern life requires. They both agreed that we can learn to trust ourselves more if we first simply notice how confusing and chaotic life is. "Margaret Wheatley: In your book When Things Fall Apart, you quote Trungpa Rinpoche as saying that this is a dark time when people lose faith in themselves and so lack courage. To me, that’s a very clear statement of what’s going on now, because we are at a point where we feel very badly about who we are as a species. There is all this self-loathing and the messages we give each other are filled with what’s wrong with us. Whether it’s at the individual or organizational level, we’re focused on pathology and use a lot of very negative terms to describe our experience."
Article: Courage Starts With Uncertainty
