Maria Arpa
This week
Who decides what’s right?
Plus…
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness
and
The Wednesday Whisper
Right and Wrong
I’ve learned a lot of lessons about justice and fairness, mostly learned from my time working with gangs, youth, and in social housing. The most important of those lessons is the danger of righteousness, and the idea that we can judge something as wrong or bad. In that thinking, we risk believing that we know how it should be, and have a duty to fix it. At the point that we decide we have to fix something, to what extent are we attempting to exert control over a person or a situation?
There is no easy answer to this because the use of force is sometimes going to be the necessary to bring about safety. But when the use of force comes from an adversarial energy or the application of a fixed system, we lose the essence of our human capacity for love, mercy and abundance.
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness
In DRM consciousness we are seeking the reduction of unnecessary human suffering. This doesn’t happen fairly without dialogue. DRM seeks to engage by making the dialogue irresistible.
The Wednesday Whisper
Has there been a time in your life when someone else’s will was imposed on you? Did someone tell you they were right but didn’t bother to hear you?
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