Continuing with wisdom from S/He Who Shall Not Be Named: …you cannot fight for peace…(but) even when we are peace seekers and peace activists, we still perpetuate the same patterns of war, patterns like ownership, possessions – mine – not able to share, ‘othering’ people. And this is how war stays inside of us…Part of our education for 7000 years of patriarchy…under many systems of oppression, is to internalize the notion of not sharing, not being able to see…(that) the thing that I love…can be loved by more than me.

Love is a huge energy that cannot be controlled…it is a state of mind that teaches us to be one with life…love cannot be selective…either we love all, or our love is not true…may we really stand for this level of love.

To love is a political action…The world is a hologram. It is one capsule and whatever you radiate will have an influence. So whatever you radiate, wherever you are, it will have an influence…And that’s my belief, my hope, that I can contribute to the liberation of my people, …all people, every people.

May we remember, we can choose to love. We can commit to practicing love in every circumstance. Remember every time we choose to wrap our arms around the horrors of hatred – and this may mean grieving deeply for the loss of our own aliveness,
something someone somewhere somehow
softens,
            drops a weapon,
                                   cries with remorse,
                                                                makes room for life…

May we be grateful for the human heart’s capacity to bloom with courageous love.