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Always on the Road
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Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Here’s why I’m hypervigilant, alarmed, and outraged about what’s happening in the USA right now, heartbroken about the devastation to targeted communities and the climate itself — but far from defeated.
We are in an emergency.
The nature of this emergency is pushback against the long emergence of a new, more egalitarian, inclusive, empathic, and aware society, of the way that new ideas and new rights and policies add up to nothing less than a better society.
Better when it comes to justice because it protects rights that were previously not even recognized, better when it comes to truth because it includes historically excluded voices, better when it comes to nature, because it recognizes both the elegant intricacy of natural systems and our inseparability from them.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver, and maintainer of balance.
