The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.
The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.
It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.