western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose.
to work, to make money.
some indigenous cultures believe
we’re alive just as nature is alive:
to be here, to be beautiful and strange.
we don’t need to achieve anything
to be valid in our humanness.
to work, to make money.
some indigenous cultures believe
we’re alive just as nature is alive:
to be here, to be beautiful and strange.
we don’t need to achieve anything
to be valid in our humanness.
--melanie lau
We have become caught up in a materialistic and greedy world, so many of us. This has dire consequences for the future. It seems that there has been some disconnect between the clever mind and the human heart, love and compassion. And instead of making a major decision based on, ‘How will this affect generations ahead? How will this affect the world in the future when we’re not here?,’ the criteria today are, ‘How will this decision affect me now, me and my family now? How will it affect the next shareholders meeting? How will it affect my next political campaign?’
--Jane Goodall
Image source: Sarrita King, Language of the Earth, available for purchase at: https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com/artworks/sarrita-king-language-of-the-earth-sk084/
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