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“You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring…”
The Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009
By Paul Hawken
Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation – but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.
Top Ten Things to Think About If You Want to Change the World
By Michael Angier
Mahatma Gandhi believed that we must be the change we want to see in the world. This was well demonstrated when he helped India gain its independence. Gandhi was a revolutionary man, but he accomplished India's emergence as a nation without starting a revolution. In fact, he advocated no violence. One of the most powerful countries in the world yielded to the commitment of one man and the dream of millions.
A Hopi Elder Speaks (The Elders Oraibi)
“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour,
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
The Wisdom of White Cloud
Your religious calling was on plates of stone by the flaming finger of an angry God. Our religion was established by the traditions of our ancestors. The dreams of our elders that are given to them in the silent hours of the night by the Great Spirit. And the premonitions of the learned Beings. It is written in the hearts of our people, THUS, we do not require churches which would only lead to us to argue about GOD. We do not wish this. EARTHLY things may be argued about by men, butt we never argue over GOD. And the thought that white men should rule over nature and change its ways following his liking was never understood by the RED man. Our belief is that the Great Spirit has created all things. Not just mankind, but all animals, all plants, all rocks... For us all, life is holy. But you do not understand our prayers when we address the sun, moon, and winds. You have judged us without understanding only because our prayers are different. But we are able to live in harmony with all of nature. All of nature is within us and we are part of all nature.
Choose Love Not Fear…
Written by Escape The Illusion 8 Comments
There are really only two emotions in the Physical Universe – those being LOVE and FEAR. All other emotions are just variations on these two primary states of emotion. LOVE is the emotion associated with a ‘knowing’ that everything in the Universe is an expression of a singularity (i.e. God) and is therefore interconnected, whereas FEAR is the emotion underlying the perception (i.e. illusion) of being separate from God. The following article compares these two states of consciousness…
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be
greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Chief Seattle's Thoughts in a letter to the president of the United States 1854
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.
I’m only a farmer
I'm only a farmer.
I know the sun better than anyone.
And the soil.
And the wind.
And the rain.
I am the man who works with them.
Who loves them.
And sometimes fears them.
Excerpt from Conversations with God Book 1 – Love is the answer.
Love is the ultimate reality. It is the only. The all. The feeling of love is
your experience of God. In highest Truth, love is all there is, all there was, and
all there ever will be. When you move into the absolute, you move into love.
The realm of the relative was created in order that I might experience My
Self. This has already been explained to you. This does not make the realm of
the relative real. It is a created reality you and I have devised and continue to
devise – in order that we may know ourselves experientially.Yet the creation
can seem very real. Its purpose is to seem so real, we accept it as truly existing.
Message from a Worm
Rebecca Reider
I reached down to touch earth, wise old knowing earth
beneath my feet
last week
and I met a wee wriggling worm,
red brown slippery slitherly worm
and there was a sound
and I kneeled down, put one ear to the ground
for that wee wriggler –
was speaking
to me?