"When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir
Have you ever observed how all things are woven together
and share common bonds? Nothing in this world is separate. Everything is somehow tied together.
Truly we are all interdependent or connected by many strands of chemical, biological,
and psychological common denominators. Observe how carbon, oxygen, and other
essentials chemicals make up the shared building blocks of what sustains
us. Such an exploration
reveals how we all are interconnected.
Various truths come up from this inquiry. First we are not separate selves.
Second that all things are transient and finally everything is somehow tied to
everything else. We all share
this mutual connection here and now. The
challenge is to see how these strands interface. We merge as a greater collective
organism, bonded by mutual interlocking elements that give us life. Even the non-living elements are
essential ingredients to support our life cycles. Rocks, soil, and other elements make
up this wonderful spider’s web we all reside in.
The very basis of all our relationships is that we are
interrelated. Everything is
I am related with. Seeing the nature of all our relationships directly ties us
closer together. For
example, all of life depends upon and inter-changes water. The water cycle like the carbon cycle
further extends our amazing shared time here on this terra firma.
When I see how we all are so inter –connected this
insight leads me to a greater joy. By illuminating this truth of oneness
I find a new tremendous devotion. This
provides me greater courage to overcome the numerous obstacles and
fears. Also I relate to how all things are sacred since there is whole not
just a sum of the parts. Accepting
this truth I better understand
what hinders me to allow greater freedom to go beyond my delusion.
Beholding my greater connection allows me to
delight in this fantastic cosmic mystery. With mirth and curiosity I better
make the connections to all facets of my life, family, friends, and extended
network of fellow beings. Wisdom, humility and courage emerge from this
discovery of my greater connections. This new light beacons my travels upon the
darks seas of new possibilities? May I become the actor not reactor to show by
example how we are not separate. Heraclitus
over 2600 years ago wisely stated, “All things come out of the one and the one
out of all things.”
When
we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with
continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and
shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of
beauty- John
Muir
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