Parisa Fitz-Henley Instagram – Up today thinking of #Iran, the voices silenced, the innocent lives taken or set for execution for calling for freedom. Then I see the news of #ColoradoSprings, innocent lives taken in a place people had gathered for joy, for being who they are. Terror continues to ascend. đź’” These are not isolated things. Around the world there are countless examples of hatred & violence, between nations & parties, in communities, in households, & even inside our own selves. This quotation came to mind, as it often does when my heart is aching over our addiction to tearing each other apart. It seems sometimes that it’s just inherently human to be horrible & destructive, selfish & hateful. But if it is, then it’s just as inherently human to heal & be healed, to love beyond reason, to evolve, to transcend. This is a choice. A choice we have to make on a day to day, moment by moment, breath by breath basis. Every moment we pause to consider whether there is a different, more loving way to approach a person, an idea, we shift the atmosphere in & around us. The more of us that do it, the more we change what it means to be human from an accident of ancestry to an autonomous being, immensely capable of carrying forward “an ever-advancing civilization.” Even as so many of us grieve the lives lost & in danger today, so many shower them with love from every direction, & find new energy to stand & demand wellbeing for all.
May our grieving be soothed, may we be strengthened in our evolution, may the souls taken from this world rest in peace. Amen.
#WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini
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“And the breeding-ground of all these tragedies is prejudice: prejudice of race and nation, of religion, of political opinion; and the root cause of prejudice is blind imitation of the past — imitation in religion, in racial attitudes, in national bias, in politics. So long as this aping of the past persisteth, just so long will the foundations of the social order be blown to the four winds, just so long will humanity be continually exposed to direst peril.”
– Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 246. | Posted on 20/Nov/2022 22:54:39



![Parisa Fitz-Henley Instagram – 40 days since #MahsaAmini was murdered, since hundreds of innocent people — including women and 20+ children have been killed in the aftermath. 🥀 Dear family in Iran, we are still watching, still praying, making efforts in various fields to support a more just and free Iran. In awe of your courage. Sending you love. 🌹💪
Thanks to @khansarinia[Twitter] for sharing this. And to @shervinine for his beautiful song “Baraye”
Image/video description: A screen capture of a tweet that includes a video of weeping protesters singing to Baraye. Text of the tweet: “You don’t need to understand the lyrics, you don’t need to be Iranian, you don’t even need to have followed Iran news the past month to see forty-three years of the pain of an entire nation in this man’s tears. Soon, that pain will end.” A man cries openly as he holds up a sign bearing an image of Mahsa Amini and a young woman in front of him, with white bandages and what looks like blood on her face, sobs as she sings along.](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ParisaFitz-Henley-95-150x150.jpg)