"Michael Meade has a beautiful phrase for the kind of collective knowing that dates back as long as we've been around: 'a thought in the heart.' My own heart resonates with the thought that — despite all evidence to the contrary — there is in all of us an essential aspect that cannot be extinguished. This society, in its spiritually dormant state of immaturity and denial, blocks our awareness of it, supplanting it instead with qualities, activities, goods, and beliefs that cannot possibly satisfy. As individuals we are unable to see our own beauty or perfection; as members of a collective, we miss how we are all made of, indeed interwoven within, the same divine fabric."
— Gabor Maté
From The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Normal-Illness-Healing-Culture/dp/0593083881
and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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