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I walk along the beach listening to the ocean, still powerful and still beautiful but chocking from human debris. She points out the garbage along the way for me to pick up. At least this piece of plastic will not choke any sea life.
My grandson and I watched a documentary on sharks. Ninety per cent of the shark population has been killed off, most just for their fins. Costa Rica has been taken over by the Shark Fin mafia as the mafia has money and the government is willing. The people are protesting, they care. The documentary said if there are no sharks there are no people. We are all connected.
Cool… I used to get really angry when I saw the debris on the ground (on the beach or in the city). Now, I think of it as an opportunity to be of service to the Earth. (I just wish there wasn’t so much “service” out there!)
Peace,
Sharif
I was sitting, listening to a friend’s feedback on a talk I had given the other night, Change For R-Evolutionaries. He started to say how it felt a bit slow to him. But as he reflected, he also recalled how even though he had had a busy day and my presentation went a full 3 hours, he did not feel tired. With a smile he offered that perhaps there was a purpose to my cadence. I returned the smile with a glint.
He admitted that he thinks of himself as somewhat of an intellectual and can grok things very quickly. I acknowledged that our minds move faster than the speed of light, but our bodies have a far slower pace. How else could we have gotten so far out in front of ourselves with our planet? We’re now backtracking at a frantic pace in an effort to realign our quick minds with our bodies and, by extension, our collective body Earth.
When we slow down to the speed of our breath, take time to feel warmth in our eyes and our heart, we enter a new relationship of care and consideration to both ourselves and everything/one around us. We re-enter life through the gateway of our heart. In true care, we can restore, mend and heal.
Absolutely! An essential part of being able to listen to the Earth involves “not speeding up”. (I was about to write “slowing down”, but the Earth isn’t “slow” — its rotating at 733 miles an hour at my latitude!) When we are moving and cogitating at “Breaker” speed, we unpin ourselves from LIFE. What can we actually SEE at our Breaker speeds? The curse of over-stimulation…
I think that nature directs us to be true to our own nature, soul. When we listen, we have more respect for the natural world in return…. a big beautiful circle. Our authentic selves have a tendency to become covered up with layers that mask us based on what society/others expect from us in order to “succeed.”. We then lose sight of ourselves and what is true, pure and natural around us.
You said:
Our authentic selves have a tendency to become covered up with layers that mask us based on what society/others expect from us in order to “succeed.”
True. And, those masks get quite sticky when we label those assumptions and expectations “normal”. Fighting and violence is “normal”. Dominance over other beings (including human beings) is “normal”. Artificial and synthetic foods are “normal”.
I had a friend who would trade the butter she received (from a government program) for margarine, because the butter “wasn’t yellow enough”. Recently, I had a friend who was meditating next to a beautiful river… which she couldn’t hear, because she had on headphones — listening to the recorded sound of a river! (That’s too bizarre for me to make up!)
No wonder we can’t hear what Nature is saying…