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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

TED.com Rocks!

Just watched Eve Ensler's TEDTalk on security. It's emotional, but I loved this quote: "...if your end goal is security, and if that's all you're focusing on, what ends up happening, is that you create not only more insecurity in other people, but you make yourself far more insecure. Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. Not running from loss, but entering grief, surrendering to sorrow. Real security is not knowing something when you don't know it. Real security is hungering for connection rather than power. It cannot be bought or arranged or made with bombs. it is deeper, it is a process, it is acute awareness that we are all utterly inter-bended, and one action by one being in one tiny town, has consequences everywhere. Real security is not only being able to tolerate mystery, complexity, ambiguity, but hungering for them. and only trusting a situation when they are present." -Eve Ensler

You think US dept. of homeland security would listen to this? :)
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