“We hear so much today about how much people can do if they band together as a community – they can solve neighborhood violence, get rid of unwanted elements, work together for their own improvement, take matters into their own hands when the system ignores the real needs of people, become recognized as a force that cannot be ignored. And if community is not such a force it at least gathers together people who can find commonality and understand each other when the larger world does not understand them: support groups of every sort. Here we have a key insight, namely that community, as usually understood, defines itself by being against other aspects of the world and gains power by gathering together numbers of conforming individuals. No matter how inclusive such a group may be, it defines itself in relation to what does not belong. The world sense of relationships that I want to explore concerns neither banding together nor needing anything to oppose in order to have definition and act in the world.”
~ Robert Sardello in his book: Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth
In light of the election and my personal study on soul and how I want to engage with you, and the world, I read this to friends and family at dinner last night. We all paused, “chewed”on it. The first time I read it, particularly the final sentence, I shook my head, “yes”; I unabatedly agree.
The question we wrestled with last night was: what do we do instead?
On this day as we vote, we are uniting as individual citizens of a country and citizens of the world. I want to recognize that we are coming together as a community. The very fact that every US citizen has a right to vote makes each of us a unique part of a whole and gives us definition in a positive way. We can pause and appreciate this even as we cast opposing votes.
What do we do instead?
~ We remember that everyone is a necessary part of the whole.
~ We trust that there exists more similarity in each of us than polarity.
~ We seek to define ourselves positively without negatively defining another.
~ We love.
~ Ultimately, we love ourselves and that frees us to love others.
Namastè
~ Robert Sardello in his book: Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth
In light of the election and my personal study on soul and how I want to engage with you, and the world, I read this to friends and family at dinner last night. We all paused, “chewed”on it. The first time I read it, particularly the final sentence, I shook my head, “yes”; I unabatedly agree.
The question we wrestled with last night was: what do we do instead?
On this day as we vote, we are uniting as individual citizens of a country and citizens of the world. I want to recognize that we are coming together as a community. The very fact that every US citizen has a right to vote makes each of us a unique part of a whole and gives us definition in a positive way. We can pause and appreciate this even as we cast opposing votes.
What do we do instead?
~ We remember that everyone is a necessary part of the whole.
~ We trust that there exists more similarity in each of us than polarity.
~ We seek to define ourselves positively without negatively defining another.
~ We love.
~ Ultimately, we love ourselves and that frees us to love others.
Namastè
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