Lisa Ray Instagram – I read these luminous words on @natashabadhwar timeline Such a harvest of wisdom must be shared. It’s not easy to crack open and stand in vulnerability with an aching heart, but it is freedom and the work of our lives: Repost: It’s easy to feel completely overwhelmed in the face of the multiple crises India is facing… Our ability to emotionally survive a time like this perhaps lies in our capacity to somehow be able to stand in what educator and author, Parker Palmer, calls ‘the tragic gap’… In the face of overwhelming problems, we tend to flip either into the realm of corrosive cynicism and stop believing that anything will change and end up living only for ourselves, or we flip into the world of irrelevant idealism and empty optimism, and ‘float above it all.’ The result is the same, as both the cynics and so-called idealists end up doing little good in the world. Palmer tells us that very few choose to stand in the tragic gap because they know that doing so will break their hearts. But the key, he says, is to let the pain and tragedy break our hearts open and let empathy flow, instead of letting them shatter like exploding grenades, spewing shards of hatred and anger out into the world.” ~ Read this luminous piece by Rohit Kumar to get a potted history of the times we live in and the wisdom to know what to do about it. Image: The World Unseen