BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
23rd January 2019
Dear Inhabitants of Earth who live in a potential paradise, if only you would take multiple action in alignment with earth’s needs instead of focusing on your own selfish desires and (for some) extravagant lifestyles. If you truly felt for her plight, you would immediately find ways to reduce pollution, limit population and train all of humankind to curb their use and intake of all resources, fiercely protecting what you refer to as “nature”.
Even if you had no teachers or texts of wisdom to resort to, even if you felt helpless and alone, NATURE would be an excellent instructor. It provides you with untold opportunities to learn, for example the way a flower effortlessly unfolds in all its beauty. Do you unfold your own beauty naturally? Or do you push it or cajole it or alter it to keep to certain deadlines or certain outwardly or inwardly imposed standards?
Or do you even reject the idea that beauty is yours, rejecting your divine planning or “programming”, adamant that creation has – somewhere along the lines – made a mistake? Beauty is not “perfection” in the accepted sense: it is ACCEPTING A DIVINE MANDATE AND BEING ABLE TO GROW WITHOUT IMPEDIMENT, irrespective of and even because of physical attributes and circumstances, however “positive” or “negative” you may assess them.
What of recovery? Consider how the grass effortlessly springs up again after you have trodden on it, the way plants effortlessly release their seeds (their “young”) to the wind, the way all tendrils and seedlings automatically stretch towards the light using full capacity.
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