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Every Fruit Ripening
“The Earth has been wounded by our greed and exploitation, and by our forgetfulness of its sacred nature. It needs us to remember and reconnect, to once again recognize that we are not separate but a part of this living being. And love is the simplest key to this reconnection, because the nature of love is oneness. Love is the most ordinary, simplest, and most direct way to uncover what is real — the innermost secrets of life and its primal unity. It is at the root of all that exists, as well as in every bud breaking open at springtime, every fruit ripening in fall.
Love can open us to deep participation in the life of the whole; it can teach us once again how to listen to life, feel life’s heartbeat, sense its soul. It can align us with the sacred within all of creation, and reconnect us with our innate knowing that the Divine is present in everything — in every breath, every stone, every animate and inanimate thing. In the oneness of love, everything is included, and everything is sacred.” — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We don’t realize that we are part of the mind and body of Creation, or as some would say, God. We are the Earth in microcosm, in both materialiality and spirit. We are not disconnected; the same energies run through everything, right down to stones and rivers. Imagine the shock of natives who saw newcomers to this land digging in the veins of the sacred Earth for…
