Please read Elizabeth's post quoting Alice Walker's letter to Barack Obama at Telling Secrets. Here's a taste, but do read the whole letter. It's great.
A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader.
All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies.
Amen, and amen, and amen!
See my blog, Grandmere, to view Mr Obama's episcopal advisor
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