Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
Interpretation
This quote highlights that human tragedies arise from our choice to disconnect from one another.
Neale Donald Walsch's quote suggests that the essence of human tragedy lies in the decisions we make to isolate ourselves from others. By withdrawing from interpersonal connections, we cultivate an environment that leads to suffering and hardship. Connection and community are vital, and the neglect of these can manifest in negative consequences experienced by individuals and societies alike.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about the importance of community during challenging times.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
Women absolutely deserve respect.
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.
Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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