One Being

From “Abstractionism”

I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy… parts of one organic whole…. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.)

The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole.

This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

~ Robinson Jeffers

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We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

~ Naomi Klein

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As a biologist, I know diversity of genes, species and ecosystems, have maximized options and thus enabled life to survive and flourish in an ever changing environment. Humans have occupied many different parts of the planet because of an added level of diversity — culture.

~ David Suzuki

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One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something; and the…