Anne Frank was 15 years old when she died in a Nazi concentration camp. Yet her words outlived her body. Words scribbled in a diary from a secret attic in Amsterdam became one of the world’s most powerful mirrors.
This summer, I found myself in Amsterdam for Mindvalley U. By chance, my Airbnb was on the street next to Anne Frank’s house. Each morning, I’d step outside and see the same canals, the same cobblestones, and the same rooftops Anne may have glimpsed in stolen moments when she dared peek out from her hiding place.
A few mornings later, I opened the news and froze. The Diary of Anne Frank had just been banned in Florida schools under new book-ban laws. Imagine that. In 2025, one of the most important human documents ever written—the testimony of a teenage Jewish girl hiding from Nazi genocide—was deemed “inappropriate” for children to read.
The synchronicity hit me hard. I was standing before the building where those words were written. Words that survived Anne, even though she did not. Words that outlived war, genocide, and cruelty—only to be silenced again today by politicians who fear truth more than hatred.
And this got me thinking.
If Anne Frank were alive today, what would she say about America? About Israel & Gaza?
What I’m about to share may feel uncomfortable—but Anne’s words demand we face discomfort.
Who was Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929. When the Nazis rose to power, her family fled to Amsterdam, hoping to escape persecution. In 1942, when deportations began, they went into hiding in a small annex behind her father’s office. For over two years, Anne, her sister Margot, her parents Otto and Edith, and four others lived in silence, relying on the courage of Dutch friends who smuggled them food and news.
Anne wasn’t just a symbol. She was a teenager—funny, sharp, sometimes rebellious, and always observant. She dreamed of being a journalist. She once wrote, “I want to go on living even after my death.” And, tragically, she did—not through her life, but through her words.
In August 1944, they were betrayed. The Gestapo stormed the annex. The Franks were deported to Westerbork, then Auschwitz, and finally Anne and Margot to Bergen-Belsen. In early 1945, both sisters died of typhus—just weeks before liberation. Anne was 15.
Only Otto Frank survived. After the war, Miep Gies, one of the helpers, handed him Anne’s diary. He published it, fulfilling her dream. Today, it has sold over 30 million copies and been translated into more than 70 languages.
Anne’s body was silenced. But her voice became immortal.
Anne’s words in today’s world
Anne once wrote:
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor, helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
She was describing Nazi roundups in Amsterdam.
But doesn’t that sound eerily like ICE raids in America today? Parents taken in the middle of the night. Children left crying, bewildered, abandoned. Different time, different uniforms—but the same cruelty.
Anne also wrote:
“We are chained to one spot, without rights, a thousand obligations… waiting for the inevitable end.”
That could be the voice of Gaza today. Entire families locked in. Starved. Bombed. Denied freedom of movement. Children asking, “Why must we suffer simply because of who we are?”
Her words, written 80 years ago, read like dispatches from the present. History is not past. It is a loop—unless we break it.
A hard, controversial mirror
Anne’s diary teaches us to look at cruelty honestly, no matter where it comes from. And one thing history proves: atrocities don’t start with bullets. They start with words.
Dehumanizing language always comes first.
So let’s talk about Gaza, as uncomfortable as this may seem.
Consider the echoes:
- Nazi leadership (1943): Heinrich Himmler at Posen: “I am referring here to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people….”
- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (2023): On the Palestinian town of Huwara: “[Huwara] should be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.”
- Hitler, Mein Kampf: Jews as “the typical parasite, a sponger who, like an infectious bacillus, keeps spreading.” Nazi propaganda routinely cast Jews as vermin.
- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2023): Announcing a siege of Gaza: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel… We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
- Nazi propaganda (Goebbels echoing Hitler): Jews blamed collectively for war, threatened with “extermination.”
- Israeli President Isaac Herzog (2023): “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible….” — words widely criticized as endorsing collective punishment.
- Nazi euphemisms: “Evacuation” as code for extermination.
- Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (2023): Suggesting a nuclear strike on Gaza was “one of the options.”
Different contexts. Different scales. But the same pattern.
Dehumanize → Justify → Destroy.
Anne Frank’s words remind us: when we hear this language, it is never “just rhetoric.” It is the runway to cruelty.
You see, cruelty always begins the same way: when leaders tell us to fear “the other.”
Fear the immigrant.
Fear the refugee.
Fear the neighbor who looks different.
Fear the people beyond your border.
That is the oldest political trick in the book. And it works—unless we refuse to buy it.
Anne Frank didn’t write her diary so we could cry in museums. She wrote it so we could recognize her suffering in others—and have the courage to stop it.
Why giving people a chance matters
This message hit me with even greater force because, while in Amsterdam, I also had a chance encounter.
I bumped into a young Syrian man who once worked for me back in 2016. At the time, he was a refugee in Malaysia. He and his friend had escaped a country torn apart by war. One had seen his home blown to rubble. The other had lost a brother when a bomb fell on the very place his brother was resting.
Both had lived through horrors most of us can barely imagine. And yet, when I met them, I didn’t just see refugees. I saw brilliant young minds. I saw hope, determination, and resilience.
That year, I had an idea for a new learning model called Quest and needed someone to build the app. These two young Syrians built it in record time. That app became the Mindvalley app—today used by millions worldwide and even featured in 200,000 Apple stores on the iPad.
Yes, our app was built by Syrians. Yes, it was built by refugees who were given a chance.
Anne never got her chance. But when we give people that chance, look what can happen.
This is why I am so adamant about this message. When politicians tell you to fear refugees, or immigrants, or minorities, they’re not just lying. They are robbing humanity of its future.
The rule we must all live by
If there’s one rule we must all live by, it’s this:
The moment a leader tells you to fear refugees, minorities, or immigrants, you are looking at a tyrant.
Do not believe them. Do not reward their fear with your silence—or your vote.
Because fear divides. And division always leads to cruelty.
What the world needs now is unity.
Unity across stripes, colors, races, and ethnicities. Unity across cultures, religions, and especially across borders.
Because the only way we solve the greatest challenges facing humanity—from climate change to war to poverty—is to remember this truth:
We are one humanity.
And kindness cannot stop at the invisible lines of race, religion, or border.
The higher vision
Anne Frank once wrote:
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
That may be the most extraordinary line ever written. She believed it while hiding from people who wanted her dead.
If Anne could believe in human goodness then, we can believe in it now.
Let’s prove her right.
Let’s choose compassion over cruelty.
Let’s stand up for one another across borders.
Let’s silence the voices of fear not by shouting back but by choosing unity again and again.
Because Anne’s diary isn’t just a warning.
It’s a torch.
And it’s in our hands now.
So here’s what we can collectively do.
Stand for unity. Across color. Across race. Across borders. Across religions.
When you hear fear, answer with love.
When you hear division, answer with solidarity.
When a politician uses scapegoating, vote the other way.
The only way to honor Anne is to prove her right—that humanity is good at heart.
And that goodness becomes real when we act.
Because history doesn’t just happen to us. It is written by our choices—and our silence.
I’d like to hear from you: Drop a comment below—let’s create a conversation around unity, compassion, and what it means to stand for humanity in our time.
1,251 Responses
Another brilliant article on the decaying state of the world’s morality. Thank you, Vishen, for showing up and telling the truth. For the first time in decades, our western culture is going backwards. We made massive conquests in gender and race equality since the 1960s until recently. I’m with you 100% that the problem is the weaponization of fear. Good examples like yours are the hope of this world. I still believe there is more good today. But history is repeating itself and we are again tolerating the intolerable. Learn from the past, people!
Thank you for opening a door for conversations to take place. Sadly it seems Anne Frank was a victim in her time in history and we are still witnessing global conflicts and hateful policies – even as we wonder why these atrocities continue to occur between and within nations. If more individuals can take a step back from whatever valued position they hold and consider our neighbours as citizens worthy of our care and compassion – perhaps we will have time to become models for succeeding generations in how to live in peace and harmony as world citizens.
Two wrongs will never make a right.
Thank you for finally speaking up Vishen
FINALLY someone in the personal development world who is all about love ,humanity and unity have had the balls to speak up and have a stance .
For those who are “disappointed ” with Vishen , you have no place here , as after 2 years of what can’t be called other than a genocide, your humanity is questioned
For those who justify the “war” because of 7th of October is deliberately erasing the part that Israel is an occupying force that has made Gaza as an open air prison and has left no other way but to resist for self determination.
Not justifying was done by Hamas at all and we mourn all the innocent lives lost , but when you leave no hope and control every aspect of over 2 million people, resistance is going to happen and sadly resistance was a violent one.
Hostages are being killed by Israel not Hamas, in fact we have seen publicly the difference between the Palestinian hostages when they are released and the Israeli hostages released by Hamas.
The propaganda is falling apart and there is little sympathy if at all for the tyrant Israel.
Our sympathy will always be to the non Zionist Jews who are sadly now suffering from antisemitism due to Israel’s actions and no one else.
It’s a genocide and there js absolutely nothing to justify it or call it any other way
Thank you Vishen for your courage !!
I hope Tony Robbins wakes up if he will ever do !
Gov De Santis has refuted the false allegation that Fla banned Anne Frank’s diary. See his comments on twitter/X. IN FACT IT IS ON THE RECOMMENDED READING LIST. AS IT SHOULD BE.
Thank you for this powerful message of unity and love above all else. We must heal from the atrocities and learn what it is that we are here to know. I will always stand for humanity, for love above all else. There is power in words.
Sat Nam
Creo que sí nos unimos podemos lograr muchas cosas en el mundo, creo que el dinero y el poder es lo que corrompe el corazón de los hombres porque queremos vivir desde lo no natural, acumular riquezas lleva a la ambición y a lujos y comodidades que todos queremos pero que tienen un precio muy elevado en costos que no nos detenemos a pensar, de allí nace todo tirano y es reflejo de lo que somos. Hay que cambiar la mente para lograr cambiar los gobernantes, asumiendo la responsabilidad del mundo en el que vivimos.
Thanks Vishen for speaking up. Here’s a recent post I shared, from my perspective having grown up in Israel:
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I’ve never truly belonged anywhere.
Some might see that as tragic.
But I see it as freedom.
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It meant I never subscribed to group identity.
Not to religion. Not to nationalism.
Not to a flag. Not to a story I didn’t choose.
My only identity is my own. My only home is this body.
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I’ve always been an outsider.
A non-follower.
As a kid — especially as a teen — that meant aloneness.
And with my own personal trauma already screwing up my ability to connect,
It was like I was watching life from some other world.
Family, school, society — like scenes in a play I hadn’t auditioned for.
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But that distance gave me something most people never get.
It gave me freedom from the script.
From collective delusion. From mass conditioning.
From swallowing propaganda disguised as pride.
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And if there’s one thing Israel does exceptionally well —
it’s propaganda.
It’s drilling nationalism into children and calling it love.
It’s calling entitlement survival.
Calling military loyalty morality.
Calling occupation peace.
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We were told: we’re the chosen ones.
We were told: we deserve this land.
We were told: they gave it to us willingly.
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Few questioned the story.
Even fewer knew it was a lie.
I questioned. And I knew.
Cuz truth doesn’t require obedience.
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I also questioned why the Holocaust’s loudest lesson
wasn’t about unity, love, or the sameness of humanity —
but about our differences.
The strength and superiority of our Jewish minds.
The pride of our nation.
The righteousness of our cause.
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And for that cause to survive,
the conditioning must be complete.
The thinking must be maintained.
The story must be repeated.
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Unquestioned.
Unchallenged.
Protected at all costs.
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Including the cost of children’s lives.
Including the cost of truth.
Including the cost of our own humanity.
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I too was a soldier.
I didn’t choose to be. None of us did.
We were 18. Kids in uniform.
Sleepwalking through trauma, half awake.
And in that nightmare, I became an even deeper outsider.
People in green, commanding my body —
and trying to claim my mind.
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Fellow soldiers competing for leave days, top jobs, approval, and rank.
Officers competing for privilege.
Commanders competing for power.
And underneath it all—
misogyny. Abuse. Ego. Corruption.
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Make no mistake: this army is about power, not peace.
This war is about ego, not justice.
And ‘being Israeli’ is too often not about ideals or truth —
but about fear, entitlement, and control.
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In my family, I was ‘selfish’ for not wanting to ‘contribute’.
For refusing to play my role in a machine
that kills, divides, steals, and then calls itself moral.
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And now, I see people I once respected —
calling human rights activists “pro-Pallys.”
“Watermelonians”.
Mocking empathy.
Whining about antisemitism
while their state murders and displaces
with the full backing of the West.
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Antisemitism?
When billions are being poured into Israel’s arsenal?
When saying ‘ceasefire’ is more controversial than strategic starving?
When throwing paint is deemed more dangerous than bombing?
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And you can’t see yourself as superior,
and then cry about being seen as less.
If your life is worth more than someone else’s —
then yours is worth less to someone else.
It just depends who’s holding the gun.
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No.
Innocent lives are innocent lives.
Same blood. Same skin. Same bones.
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And of course — what happened on October 7th was horrific.
But what Israel has done since?
Is unforgivable.
Not justice. Not safety. Not self-defence.
Revenge.
Sanctioned. Funded. Strategised and marketed.
Genocide dressed in grief and broadcast as survival.
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And I believe — though many still won’t — that one day the truth will surface:
That the Israeli government knew.
Let it happen.
Welcomed it.
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Cuz when your goal is mass destruction,
you don’t keep hostages in mind.
You don’t really mourn your dead –
they’re sacrificed to justify your violence.
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I’m told I have no right to speak.
That I don’t get it, I don’t understand.
Because I left at 20 years old… the min I could.
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But I don’t think this way because I left.
I left because I think this way.
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We were taught to never forget,
that silence isn’t neutral.
It kills.
We were told how easily pride becomes loyalty,
conscience replaced by orders.
Ordinary people made into weapons.
We were warned how easy it is to obey,
to conform,
to stop thinking.
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The past doesn’t just repeat.
It asks to pay attention.
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Let history say we remembered.
Let it say we resisted.
Let it say we stayed awake.
That we chose to feel
when it cost us comfort,
but kept us human.
Quite timely and a much needed reminder from a powerful yet authentic platform, thank you Vishen for this great initiative!
“It’s not the fault of the children where they are born or what religion they are born into.
In any and every country, every single child deserves love, compassion, and the opportunity to grow in a safe, healthy and nurturing environment without waking up to great fear of what today is bringing us.
It is the whole world’s collective responsibility to bring back humanity.
Dear Vishen,
I was deeply disappointed to read your recent newsletter. From someone who claims to stand for light, equality, freedom of thought, and democracy, I expected a balanced and thoughtful message. Instead, I found a one-sided, selective presentation that spreads hostility, unchecked claims, and a very partial picture. Using such a powerful platform, reaching millions of readers, to present things in this way is troubling.
In your letter, you compared Israel to the Nazi regime. I cannot remain silent in the face of such a statement. The Nazis murdered six million Jews, alongside millions of Roma, people with disabilities, and homosexuals—all slaughtered in gas chambers like vermin, solely in the name of racial “purity.” None of these groups launched thousands of rockets against civilians, massacred hundreds at a music festival, burned families alive in their homes, raped children before their parents, tortured, or took hostages. To equate Israel with that regime is not only historically false—it is a moral distortion.
Many of the people who were murdered in their homes on October 7th had chosen to live on the border with Gaza because they believed in building bridges with their neighbors. These peace-minded communities were devastated in the most brutal way. At the same time, the vicious attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah destroyed villages and cities across Israel, leaving nearly 300,000 citizens homeless—many of them still displaced today.
Regarding claims of starvation in Gaza: you fail to mention the hundreds of aid trucks that enter the Strip daily, only to be seized by Hamas and resold on the black market. You do not mention the false propaganda, including images of suffering children who were never in Gaza. Nor do you note that UN reports often present only part of the story, while ignoring key facts. These are well-documented issues for anyone willing to look at serious sources.
And where is the outcry for the Israeli hostages? For almost two years, the Red Cross has not even visited them—not once. Why is this silence ignored?
Your description of Israelis as fearful of “the other” is also misleading. Many of those murdered were peace activists—people who devoted their lives to cooperation with Gaza. In Israel itself, more than a million citizens—Jews and Arabs together—have been protesting in the streets for three years against a government they oppose. Ten percent of the population demonstrating is no small thing. And in every hospital, patients are treated by Arab doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. This is the reality of daily life in Israel.
But let’s not forget the broader picture. Israel is a very small country—so small that its name often cannot even be written on a world map. It is surrounded by hostile forces, not only in neighboring countries but farther afield: Iran launches hundreds of ballistic missiles, while the Houthis in Yemen send long-range rockets on a daily basis. This is the reality Israel faces, and it cannot simply be wished away.
Yet despite all this, Israel has now become the world’s “other.” It has become fashionable—almost comfortable—to throw mud on Israel, to compare it to Nazis, and to use Anne Frank’s name as a tool. This is a miserable excuse, and I fear that behind it often lies antisemitism disguised as moral concern.
I urge you, with all respect, to reconsider the tone and content of your messages. With your wide reach, you carry responsibility to inform fairly, not to deepen divisions or spread hatred.
Sincerely,
Miri Rozalis
Thank you for speaking up. The history shows that the strategy “divide and rule” has often been used to gain power. So simple and cruel – just find an “other”, present him/her as the common enemy and show up as the savior. It is so sad it happens nowadays in so many places all over the world, I see it even in a small country like Poland where people driven by fear and political manipulation go to protect the borders from the illegal immigrants. It’s just crazy.
The history also shows many people who didn’t buy the fear discourse from their rulers but didn’t have the courage to stop them. May we be wiser this time. Thank for this article and for speaking up. This is one of those voices that does make a difference.
In response to your message, I would like to share a thought. With all the technological advances available today—AI, drones, robotics—it is difficult to understand why the world’s most powerful nations cannot come together to ensure an end to groups like Hamas, whose actions on October 7, 2023, were unacceptable by any standard. One cannot help but wonder whether there are deeper interests in allowing conflicts to persist, just as we sometimes see in other global industries.
On a personal level, my own experiences have shaped how I perceive people differently. I had a very difficult experience working with colleagues from Palestine who excluded me and made me feel unwelcome as a European Christian woman. At the same time, I have had truly wonderful experiences with Israeli people I have met, who showed kindness and openness.
These experiences are, of course, my personal ones and may not reflect everyone’s reality. What I sincerely hope for is that we, as a global community, can find ways to foster peace, inclusivity, and respect—values that transcend nationality, religion, or politics.
Dear Vishen,
I recently read your piece referencing The Diary of Anne Frank being “banned” in Florida schools, and I wanted to bring an important clarification to your attention.
The original diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, has not been banned in Florida. It remains available in school libraries and is still part of the Holocaust education curriculum, which is mandated by state law.
What was removed in one Florida district (Indian River County) was a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, following parental challenges citing concerns over certain illustrations and passages. This removal does not equate to a statewide ban of Anne Frank’s diary or her testimony.
I share your passion for protecting access to important historical works and amplifying Anne Frank’s message, but it is equally important that we do so with accuracy, especially on topics as sensitive as this. Misstating the facts risks undermining the very message of unity and truth the article aims to promote.
Would you consider updating or clarifying your piece to reflect this? It would go a long way toward ensuring readers are accurately informed.
Best regards,
What I find particularly troubling about this article is that Mr. Lakhiani, even after decades devoted to the teaching of mindfulness and personal growth, still lacks the self-reflection to recognize that he is by no means acting as an independent moral authority. Instead, he drifts along with the current of an already shifted public opinion, avoiding the effort required to swim against it. Transposed to the context of the Nazi regime, such behavior suggests he would have aligned himself more with the followers than with the resisters. Even more troubling is his instrumentalization of Anne Frank’s legacy to construct a grotesque analogy between Israelis and National Socialists—a deliberately polarizing rhetoric that serves less as a serious contribution to discourse than as a calculated attempt to provoke outrage. Tellingly, this piece has already generated more than eight times the usual number of comments. The newsletter link itself contains an ID tracker and is likely part of an A/B test. In other words: in the end, profit-seeking triumphs over the hypocritical rhetoric of mindfulness and compassion. What remains is a calculated provocation—not in the service of moral conviction, but in the pursuit of reach, data, and profit. All things considered, it is not hard to imagine that, in another time, he might have compromised Anne Frank’s hiding place for personal gain.
They same could be said in reverse. Hamas wants to kill the Jews, all of them. All because they are Jews just like the nazis.
They invaded Israel and killed and kidnapped innocent people just because they are Jews.
They are still holding people hostage today. Would you not want your country to fight for their freedom?
Hamas leadership not present in Gaza is purposely sacrificing their own as propoganda. It is working. The world is blaming Jews for what is happening in Gaza. Are we all so blind that we don’t see this is exactly what Hamas is after? They don’t care about their people in Gaza they are just means to an end only.
Hamas has all the cards if they release the hostages the war will end but that won’t support them in the hate campaign against the Jews.
Don’t get me wrong all the people dying in Gaza are 1 too many and it is heartbreaking. We should put the blame not only on israel but recognise Hamas’s actions and condemn them for it as well.
Thank you, Vishen, for this strong message. The parallels you drew between Anne’s words and our world today are haunting and necessary. Thank you for having the courage to say what many are too afraid to speak out loud.
Anne Frank is an amazing example of a person I would call a Reweaver. I have been working on a new mental model I call “Reweaving.” Reweaving is the practice of consciously interrupting the pervasive cultural programming that prioritizes separation, control, and competition—and instead choosing to restore our connection to love, life, and one another. At its core, Reweaving is both a personal and collective process of:
Waking up from unconscious survival patterns.
Grounding into your whole, radiant self.
Aligning with soul-truth and your highest values.
Expressing from love instead of fear.
Creating change by modeling new possibilities in action.
It’s a lifestyle shift that transforms reactive survival into resilient, radiant leadership.
Mindvalley is, I know, a community of reweavers, even if this term is unfamiliar.
I’m so grateful to you, Vischen, and to all the members of this beautiful community who are “reweaving” the threads of unconditional LOVE back into the fabric of our world culture. I believe a tipping point will eventually come when enough of us are reweaving that will make a time of peace, love and prosperity for all a reality on Earth.
I agree wholeheartedly with this article and the need to respect all and show compassion to refugees , migrants and those less fortunate Words are important do not dehumanise and do not reward those who dehumanise with our silence Great article Vishen. Respect Bryan Dooley Northern Ireland
Thank you for this reminder. It is so easy to forget that we are one in today’s chaotic world. One love!
Thank You Vishen. For being a clear voice in the pain of this world.
I am no-one, no-thing, in no-time and no-place. And yet, I breathe because of your vision. We all breathe. May Gaza and all Palestinians the world over find peace. May we all be driven to make that happen and not let pure evil and stupidity win this and determine human it’s future. Thank you.
It is hard to believe and to see that we don’t learn from history itself.
I agree we need to learn, each of us, from the impact by awareness and take actions with the heart, again and again.
I would love to share something Etty Hillesum said. She lived in the Netherlands, was jewish and also wrote a diary in the war, like Anne. And she neither survived the war.
She is less famous, but her words are so profound and always inspire me to continue with the work I stand for contributing to peace.
I quote:
From: An Interrupted life and letters from Westerbork, Etty Hillesum, 20th of June 1942
Humiliation always involves two. The one who does the humiliating, and the one who allows himself to be humiliated. If the second is missing, that is, if the passive party is immune to humiliation, then the humiliation vanishes into thin air. All that remains are vexatious measures that interfere with daily life but are not humiliations that weigh heavily on the soul. We Jews should remember that. This morning I cycled along the Station Quay enjoying the broad sweep of the sky at the edge of the city and breathing in the fresh, unrationed air. And everywhere signs barring Jews from the paths and the open country. But above the one narrow path still left to us stretches the sky, intact. They can’t do anything to us, they really can’t. They can harass us, they can rob us of our material goods, of our freedom of movement, but we ourselves forfeit our greatest assets by our misguided compliance. By our feeling of being persecuted, humiliated, and oppressed. By our own hatred. By our swagger, which hides our fear. We may of course be sad and depressed by what has been done to us; that is only human and understandable. However: our greatest injury is one we inflict upon ourselves, I find life beautiful, and I feel free. The sky within me is as wide as the one stretching above my head. I believe in God and I believe in man, and I say so without embarrassment. Life is hard, but that is no bad thing. If one starts by taking one’s own importance seriously, the rest follows. It is not morbid individualism to work on oneself. True peace will come only when every individual finds peace within himself; when we have all vanquished and transformed our hatred for our fellow human beings of whatever race – even into love one day, although perhaps that is asking too much. It is, however, the only solution.
We always have a choice: love or fear. Even we might think different.