Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Abebe.

Friends, every day, it feels like world circumstances aren't just hopeless, but impossible.

I bet some of you feel this way too.

Tactics for resistance to all the hopelessness, the violence don't seem to work anymore. New horrors appear,

and the ability to access a calm and engage life can even seem at times to be beyond us.

How do we approach the impossibility of changing the world?

What we need is something that generates new directions,

new pathways, new visions and ideas, new strategies and tactics. But before we do that, we need to

be able to access the spiritual fact that these directions, visions, visions, and strategies

are even available to us in the first place.

This is not the kind of work that we're used to.

We're used to relying on the old, but the problems that are here,

even though they in some ways reflect old problems or echo old problems are new.

We have challenges today because we've changed.

People have changed.

The world has changed.

So even the things that look old are new.

They're newly with us and we are newly with them.

So this work working working through the impossible,

is like walking through water when what is needed is to walk on it.

But there is a moment when we will find ourselves rising above the reflective line of

surface, and it will seem baffling to us

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