Many People Are Alive

But don’t touch the miracle of being alive. Thich Nhat Hanh

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“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” 🔥

Albert Schweitzer

“We must go far beyond any transformation of contemporary culture. … None of our existing cultures can deal with this situation out of its own resources.

We must invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by a descent into our pre-rational, our instinctive resources. Our cultural resources have lost their integrity. They cannot be trusted.

What is needed is not transcendence but ‘inscendence’. — Thomas Berry

We have reached the point where our stupidity can kill us all, including the bees and all the other forms of life. We live in a tiny imaginary world that has little or nothing to do with how life on this planet actually functions. Before humans were equipped with the godlike powers of technology, their wars were local. But we now possess enough power to wipe us all from the face of the earth.

Now we can obliterate everything, and we will do so unless we evolve in fundamental ways. We need large vision, warm hearts, generosity of spirit and…