Widening The Circle of Compassion

Laura Makabresku

Our task must be to free ourselves
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature
and it’s beauty

— Albert Einstein

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God is man awakened
Man is god asleep

— Anonymous

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Who is God
but the wind giving breath.
The water to quench all bodies;
earth and human.

Who is God
but the fire alchemically rising our souls to be
born within these containers
that We may use the mind senses
and the heart wisdom
to know and love each other and the earth.

Who is God
but the minerals of food within soils of earth and
all beings.

Who is God
but the earth herself as a living embodiment of all
ever needed to survive. The very food of life.