Inter-existence

In this Saturday's mailbox...

You are not your avatar.

Is-ness is NOT mere discourse.

Any reality we create for ourselves, we forget what lies outside it. We even forget that anything lies outside it. Anything created by us without love is lifeless and alienating.

...Each person you see is divinity incarnate, doing its best under conditions that little serve its flourishing...the Nature we so cavalierly destroy is also a part of ourselves. We are more than interdependent with the rest of life, we are inter-existent. What we do to Nature, we do to ourselves. That is the truth called interbeing. We will never escape that truth, no matter how far we retreat into our virtual bubbles.

You and I are not alone in wanting to be more embodied, closer to the soil, less in the virtual world and more in the material, more in physical relationship, closer to our sources of food and medicine, more embedded in place and community. We might visit the Matrix sometimes, but we don’t want to live there. – Charles Eisenstein.

p.s. The 4 film series “The Matrix” is NOT a celebration of the matrix it attempts to expose and explore.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It is love for no reason, love without an object. – Ram Dass