Well you are.<\/p>\n
So imagine how life would be if you had to do everything for yourself.<\/p>\n
Not just the easy stuff, like getting out of bed and getting dressed.\u00a0 But also stuff like growing and cooking your own food, building your own house, making the tools to do it, baking the bricks, smelting the glass, …<\/p>\n
We are dependent on one another.<\/p>\n
We are all interdependent.<\/p>\n
Thankfully there is family and there are friends.\u00a0 They rear us and support us when we need it.\u00a0 We share good times with them too.\u00a0 It is good to be connected.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
A yearning for independence is better tamed.\u00a0 Though at first you imagine it will protect you or even give you power, exclusivity can be lethal.<\/p>\n
And, if we are all literally connected, physically through space, consciously in mind and maybe even in spirit, that is all is one, then we must reconnect with the whole to realise what we are doing to ourselves.<\/p>\n
The big picture is that we must stop eating the planet, consuming the biosphere.\u00a0 Time is the illusion that has expired.\u00a0 Read the news.\u00a0 Count the numbers of whatever worthy metric you choose and the truth is worse than anyone dared imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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