You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness
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