lonely in any crowd / spirit-to-spirit contact / conflict is a tool of intimacy

[belenen]

icon: "distance (two hands (from a brown person and a white person) just barely apart, facing each other palm to palm)"I feel like no one talks about the loneliness of rejecting oppression. It's like being a creature that looks like its surrounding creatures but isn't, while the surrounding creatures just don't have the ability to connect with you

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[not_hothead_yet]

I totally feel this. All of this. Maybe in an older way, but...

*hugs*

[aubkabob]

I crave stronger, meaningful relationships, I just never seem to have the energy or mental space. My world feels greatly internalized.

[hands_cupped]

<3 thanks for this

[raidingparty]

So the sitting Dalai Lama visited Emory and gave a talk... probably a decade ago, now, and said something like the following.

"You cannot wish no conflict. If you wish no conflict, first you must wish, no people. Not even one person! If one person wish one thing in morning, different thing in evening, is conflict! So if you wish no conflict, you wish no people."