From “Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness” by Liza J. Rankow
We stand at a threshold. The structures of a world built on domination and division are crumbling, but still fighting to hold on. Each day brings news of worsening ecological, political, and social collapse. It can be tempting to disconnect in order to ease the intensity of the pain, to distract or numb ourselves in all the ways we do. The answer, however, is not to disconnect, but to connect more deeply. To find strength in something more powerful than the chaos: our belonging to a wholeness that is ancient, infinite, and eternal. We can engage the transformative potentials within the upheaval as a portal into another way of being. We can live with purpose and meaning, not just in spite of the rising tide of calamities around us, but as our response to them. When old worlds are dying, new ones can be born. That is the real opportunity available to us in these times.