Awaken Integrating What We’ve Learned
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Oct 7, 2025 
Annabella Pitkin, scholar of Buddhism and East Asian religions, links the Wheel of Life to ethics and interdependence. Nicholas Christakis, social scientist and physician, explains how behaviors ripple through social networks. Pamela Ayo-Yetunde, pastoral counselor and teacher, shares personal stories and simple mindfulness and loving-kindness practices. They discuss impermanence, systems of care, breath practices, and practical ways to show mutual belonging.
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Finding Community At Glide
- Pamela Ayo Yetunde describes finding belonging at Glide when she felt isolated during law school.
- The sanctuary's nonjudgmental culture helped her inch toward connection and recovery with strangers supporting one another.
Interdependence As A Fundamental Fact
- Annabella Pitkin frames interdependence as a constant, dynamic fact like gravity.
- Emotional experiences of love and care engage with a real, pervasive relational reality.
A Monk's Road-Rage Reframe
- Nicholas Christakis recounts hearing a monk reframe road rage by imagining an emergency birth.
- The story moved him to deliberately re-narrate situations toward compassion in everyday life.