The Earth as Goddess
When someone is sick, I always think that something in him didn’t give up, he didn’t want to become like everyone else. When I see people who are secure, convinced of how they live, calm, who only care about external things, projects, vacations, etc. , when I see them playing the role of accomplished people, I think that they have only become a mask of themselves, and I feel great sadness: they have lost their souls.
— Raffaele Morelli — psychiatrist and psychotherapist, extracted from “You can trust yourself”
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I have noticed that sometimes people speak of our planet as a thing. This attitude will not lead to the feelings of closeness and affection that would move us to take care of the earth. As we know, the earth is not a dead rock floating in space. It is a living system, in itself as a whole and in each and every part. I do not see the earth as an inanimate object — a lump of stone. I think of it as being alive. Sitting on the earth, I feel that everything exists. In this way, we could easily think of the earth as a goddess — a living, breathing, and constantly giving goddess.
— 17th Karmapa, from “The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out”
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