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A Life Too Small
“Beauty will save the world”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The world as we knew it is already gone. The point now is to inhabit a bigger, unifying, living myth in which the words “we are all in this together” have genuine, heartfelt meaning.
— Michael Meade
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When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
~Lakota saying
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Real change for the planet will happen when you fall in love with her. Only love can reveal how to live in harmony together.
The hardened heart has no room to grow in love or an ability to care….You are of the earth and the earth is you.
Spiritual Contemplation: Spend some time in Nature. Then ask your heart, how can I care more in my relationship with the earth?
— Christian Sorensen
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“Persistent pain is usually the indication that we have become trapped in a life too small for our true nature. That is the usual human fate and the common predicament where the little-self obscures the greater nature behind it. Until people realize what harms them and limits them from within, they are unlikely to call out for someone to help stop the pain…
