5 Quotes by Angel Kyodo Williams

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it’s just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

Much of what is being taught is the acceptance of a “kinder, gentler suffering” that does not question the unwholesome roots of systemic suffering and the structures that hold it in place. What is required is a new Dharma, a radical Dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies the systems of suffering, that starves rather than fertilizes the soil of the conditions that the deep roots of societal suffering grow in.

Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?

Spiritual tradition is comfortable with paradox, whereas many political movements are not. But all truth is paradox. What it is to live in a space of transformative change is to engender greater and greater comfort with paradox. So that paradox becomes something that we not only acknowledge but also live more truthfully. We discover that Truth is relationship. And relationship is.