“To open one heart and one mind. It’s that one mind that you change. You don’t know if it’ll affect another mind, another heart. It’s happened to us. It changed our hearts, and it changed our lives.”
“It’s about love. And if you love something or you love somebody, you want to understand them, and you want to, like, take care of them and protect them and keep them safe. And that’s what we’re all here to do.”
Quotes taken from the documentary Kiss the Ground, April 2020.
The quotes above were taken from two different people, but when you piece them together it can easily describe what recovery and spirituality is all about—it’s all about changing one heart and one mind, and it’s all about love. For me, it’s the most beautiful thing you can do in life: help someone see that they are love and be transformed by the idea of it. It’s too easy to bring destruction and hurt to life. Anyone can do that. Literally, anyone. But to bring love into your heart and let that be expressed out to people and life, that’s hard. If you really know what it means to love, then you know it’s not always an easy thing to do.
“When we strip away prejudice and judgment of other cultures and spiritual or religious beliefs, we find all of humanity is not that much different from one another. We are interrelated because human existence, whether spiritual or evolutionary, began in the same place. We have expanded throughout the world and populations have exploded, we speak different languages, practice different customs, worship different gods. But yet we all share the same experience of joy with family and sadness at the death of a loved one.”
Social area of life, by Marvello V, p. 6.
Prejudice and judgment…two hurdles that must be overcome in order to love like God loves. In order to understand how all of humanity and earth are interconnected you have to strip all your ideas of prejudice and judgment from your heart and mind. Otherwise, you will always be blinded to the truth—there is no separation.
In the Kiss the Ground documentary, one segment showed how the Earth’s carbon is pulled from the air when plants (for food) are in their peak growing months of around June through July. During the rest of the year the carbon ratios are higher and at high risk levels for humanity. The documentary claims if we can keep more vegetation in the ground throughout the year then our excess carbon problem will solve itself. In other words, it’s a societal and cultural choice on how we treat the Earth.
Many years ago, I had a family member ask me how one person recycling (recycle material) can make a difference? And I said, it’s that one person times thousands or millions more. But, the effort always starts with one person making a different choice.
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“He had purified himself so that he was motivated by love for others… One does not arrive here without a significant amount of inner work, but it is also requisite to creating a change of that scale. We can’t create lasting change by teaching precept alone, but by embodying the precepts.
“There is no more important work one can undertake than to raise human consciousness, and to do so requires us to start within.”
https://josephranseth.com/gandhi-didnt-say-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/, Gandhi didn’t actually ever say “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Here’s the real quote…, by josephranseth, Aug 27, 2015.
All change in yourself and in the greater world always begins with you. One person making a different choice, and then another, and another, etc. It’s when we’re all (as a culture and society) making the same choice that it affects the entire world. That’s how we’re interconnected.
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