All Our Relations

Joey Simsim

This cycling of the human back into the larger world ensures that the other forms of experience we encounter, whether ants, or willow trees, or clouds, are never absolutely alien to ourselves. Despite the very obvious differences in shape, ability, and style of being, they remain at least distantly familiar, even familial. It is, paradoxically, this perceived kinship or consanguinity that renders the difference, or otherness, so eerily potent.”

~ David Abram

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When Jesus began his teachings he didn’t give his followers sectarian theological tracts. He took them out to a shoreline and told them to contemplate the birds of the air and the flowers of the field. It seems to me Jesus wasn’t calling his followers into a new religious sect so much as calling them out to a love that would grow into compassion and justice for all.

~ Jim Rigby

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…We romantics bask in images and fight off those who would squeeze all of life’s meaning into a few facts and rules. Our religiousness is defined by our willingness to remain in the mistiness and the mysticism of images, looking for a deeper spiritual intelligence.”

~ Thomas Moore

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We are born to overcome ourselves. We are born for that — we are not yet that. We are searchers…