When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson
It’s hard to decide who is afraid of who.
My students asked yesterday on the call: “Are you going to be safe, Sophie?”
It is not my path to be safe.
In 1988 I learned a technique (an exercise, really) that can help someone with a quiet mind descend deep inside and find the root of things.
I had just recently discovered that my default future was “I am going to be thrown out…” Thrown out of a volunteer job (17 times), thrown out of a course I paid for, thrown out of class, thrown out of a job (too many to count).
What was underneath is this: “I am on borrowed time…” i.e. life is short, make the best of it, who knows when you’ll be terminated.
I asked my neighbor across the hall to help me with that: you need two people for the exercise.