The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): 2

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Because when, when, when the structures of normal disintegrate, what comes out, it’s this suppressed aspect of human nature that, that wants to collaborate and cooperate and take care of each other that’s bursting to happen.

The separation from nature, the money system that we have today that generates disintegration of community. I’ve thus found myself comfortable with being in many ways “on the fringe” but it’s not something I sought out.Shifting to less personal questions, how do you respond to the Pinkerian argument that the Enlightenment has improved the world in countless ways? Why do you focus on beauty as such an important aspect of life, and of what’s missing in our modern world, with its “uglification” and industrialization of so much around us? War, poverty, inequality, ecological breakdown, crime, sickness, addiction, and other forms of misery will not subside, not yet, not outwardly. The right words and strategies arise naturally from compassion: from the understanding that the bankers or whoever do as I would do, were I in their shoes. You have a rare talent of provoking reconsideration of seemingly bedrock aspects of one’s worldview.

So this is a pattern of response that can achieve certain results, like through technologies of control. More than just poses on a mat, we believe yoga is an accessible practice that inspires connection, compassion, and joy. And here you have this view of the world that’s incredibly compelling that says we are all interconnected, that that everything, you know, in fact, I feel one of the things I wrote this morning when I woke up and I was thinking about this interview is I feel like you, Charles are one part of me saying things that are part of me says that like, there’s even that interconnectedness, that I, that I, I see this world really, really clearly.It is in many ways a less precise language than English; the same is true of the various Taoist sciences.