Meditation on The Beauty of The World

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And it doesn’t mean that finding this core of inner imagination and resiliency means that the world doesn’t continue to be in a dark place. It does mean that as this great crisis and great sorrow washes through the world, we can learn to find ourselves again and again, and learn that the inner star that used to be called the light inside the soul, the light found in the depths of darkness, does not simply run out of energy and lose its brightness, because it is secretly connected to something divine. I’m not talking in religious terms, I’m talking in the old language of spirit and soul and saying what so many old stories say, that we are each secretly connected to something divine and to the dream of the world, which must take a new shape again, as it has done many times. — Michael Meade

“It has become necessary for collective humanity to gain a more conscious awareness of the psychological fact that we’re all in this together and that we are all in uncharted territory. That is what the climate crisis says to us and the coronavirus may be saying in its own sad way: that we all affect each other and that one person can actually affect everyone else.” — Michael Meade

“Now we will count to twelve

and we will all keep still

for once on the face of the earth,