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If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
Thinking around this:
“As Carl Jung repeatedly declared, our goal is wholeness, not perfection. People living soulcentrically are not unchallenged or untroubled. They are simply on a path to wholeness, to becoming fully human- with all the inevitable defects and distresses inherent in any human story.”
― Bill Plotkin, The Animas Institute
“Love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.”
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Something to ponder:
“As soon as enough people in contemporary societies progress beyond adolescence, the entire consumer-driven economy and egocentric lifestyle will fail. The adolescent society is actually quite unstable due to its incongruence with the primary patterns of living systems.
The industrial society is simply incompatible with collective human maturity.”
― Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Thinking around this:
“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without awareness of or tending of the social and natural environments that sustain their lives. Their consciousness is Ego-centered.
A person with a healthy, mature Ego, in contrast, is Eco-centric; they understands themselves as an agent for the health of their ecosystem and their human community, which dwells within that ecosystem.
Spiritual practice helps mature our Egos.”
― Bill Plotkin, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
A bit of the mystery of life:
“From the perspective and experience of the Wild Indigenous One, we are enchanted, and in two ways.
First, the South Self is utterly moved by, deeply touched by, the things of this world — its creatures, greenery, landforms, weather, and celestial bodies — and recognizes that each thing has its own voice and presence. It’s as if we’re under a spell — enchanted — captured by the magic and utter mystery of each thing.
And when we’re alive in our South facet, all that we do, even “work,” becomes play. The world fills us with wonder and awe.
Sometimes we’re terrified by the deadly potential of terrestrial forms and forces such as tornadoes, grizzlies, and hornets, sometimes simply exhilarated, sometimes both at once.
We’re also enchanted in a second, reciprocal sense: The things of the world are allured by us and to us!
We ourselves, individually and as a species, are a magical power or presence in this world.
The other-than-humans recognize in us a form of mystery no less stunning than their own.”
― Bill Plotkin, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
These are trees, not shrubs…
Thinking around this:
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
This and inputs- you can care about results a lot, but you need to distinguish “input times” from “rest of life times”
“The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
There’s so many dimensions with the Amazon Rainforest
and the world of similar landscapes.
What do you think are the top 10 most important priorities, considering the locals perspectives (non Indigenous as well as Indigenous people) and considering the other 8 billion people as well?
The non-Indigenous people who live there need enough money to survive, and to survive comfortably enough and reach some of their dreams. Some people only care about riches. The severity of hurricane seasons, African droughts and natural crisis seasons around the world are strongly connected to the Amazon tipping point. Many of the Indigenous people revere the nature there as God being it and living in it, and they are at risk of being targeted in the most severe ways for defending it. Scientists think that it is one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet.
And consider the other aspects as well. The word Amazon sounds like the Spanish word amenaza, which means dangerous. The Amazon in itself is chaotic, hard to travel through, high risk, hard to make money from, and, in a word, unknown, uncertain, full of animals and who knows what. It takes up a very large amount of land… 50%? But if the Amazon tipping point is allowed to happen, this means that not only will this release all of this carbon into the air, but the rain (and therefore food) systems across the entire continent of Latin American will be changed.
Considering there are so many competing perspectives, what is the #1 most important goal around the Amazon? Up to the #20 most important goal? #1 is definitely stopping the Amazon tipping point from ever being reached. #2 is protecting the lives of Indigenous people. #3 is thinking about the fact that Indigenous people in the Amazon think that God lives in and through nature, that God lives in and through the Amazon, #4, which is very, very, very important as well- but not as important as #1, #2 and #3- is that people living in the area need to create sources of income connected to their skills.
“As I grow through love, so grows my joy,
ever more present,
ever more constant.””
— M Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled:
A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Thinking around this:
“Love is as love does.
Love is an act of will — both an intention and an action.
Will also implies choice. We do not have to love.
We choose to love.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Thinking around this:
“Living in oneness is in itself the highest form of self-realization, beyond any enlightenment or higheer consciousness.”
― Gian Kumar
Thinking around this:
“At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness.”
― Rajneesh
Thinking around this:
“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
This and inputs- you can care about results a lot, but you need to distinguish “input times” from “rest of life times”
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
― Earl Nightingale
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