02/15/2025
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things... Realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Humans don't exist separate from Nature. We are Nature, as much as the birds, flowers, clouds, trees, butterflies and rain. Our minds, bodies and civilization are deeply connected to all of Earth's systems. Knowing this is wisdom. Not knowing this is ignorance.
*THiS* could be the lesson humanity's recent experience with COVID has the potential to teach us. Within a matter of months we saw a tiny virus spread to every nation in the world, to almost every person. How was that possible? Because *all* of Earth's systems are connected.
The water we drink, the air we breathe, the carbon and nitrogen in our bodies, have been recycled by Mother Earth for millions of years. Nature is a self-regenerating system, a resource recyling system. New water and oxygen isn't made, it's purified, by Mother Earth's plants, forests and water cycles.
To becoming more conscious of our DEEP ecological unity with Nature we need to use our imaginations in new ways. Understanding that we are children of Nature's Systems & Cycles, part of one Earth family.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. put it, “All life is interrelated... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality.”
As a species, we need to understand that aligning with the regenerative and ecological laws of our home planet is far more important than our human economy, technology, politics or money.
Nature is not our enemy. But neither is she our property or slave. Nature's creative and regenerative wisdom can become our wisdom too, if we wish it to be.
A century from now, our descendents may come to see these years as a species-wide wake up call. A time when the human family came to better understand the interrelated structure of reality, aligning with Nature's Intelligence and evolving our consciousness.
A time when we came to understand how even small changes in Nature have the power to affect us. Hopefully learning how everything (and everyone) on our beautiful blue planet is part of an everpresent UNITY, all of us deeply connected...
~Christopher Chase
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Realize You are the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/realize-you-are-the-earth-thich-nhat-hanh/
All Life is Interrelated - Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zD0qHUAiwo&t=7s
Paradigms are Made for Shifting - Christopher Chase
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/paradigms-are-made-for-shifting/