relative to the Korean coup attempt and our future…
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other. (bell hooks, All About Love)
i find myself with a pervasive undercurrent of sadness and fear since the election… i am not a sad or fearful person in general… even in the midst of what may turn out to be one of the worst things to happen in my lifetime, i can manage happiness here and there…
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl – The Marginalian
It is only when we cede emotional attachment that we can be truly free from judgment, for all judgment is feeling — usually some species of fear — masquerading as thought. And when we judge, we cannot understand. True curiosity is therefore a form of love, because, as the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh so plainly and poignantly put it, “understanding is love’s other name.”