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All Our Relations

We're all one family--all part of the fabric of life. We can't hurt another without hurting ourselves. When we lift up another, we also move closer to our own divinity. 

The Periodic Table of Elements is our family tree in the physical world: all of us, whatever form we take, are made up of the same components. 

I live my life as a direct response to this philosophy. It is challenging, and I constantly fall short of my own criteria for living in right relationship with all life forms. But that dedication is one of the navigational stars by which I chart my course.

Diversity

It is up to us whether we choose to see our differences as reasons for not getting along, or as exciting challenges, advantages, opportunities to see the world from many angles. 

In navigation the process of triangulation uses two known points to provide the means of describing a third, unknown point. In music, at least two different tones must blend before we can have harmony. In nature, the interplay of ecology cannot exist without biodiversity. Metaphors are all around us. 

Diversity or adversity: the choice is ours.

Right Livelihood

Buckminster Fuller suggested a new interpretation of the term, "free enterprise," in which individuals are free to be enterprising. 

Each of us has unique gifts. We can evolve beyond hierarchical thinking and celebrate our diversity, knowing that it is in the best interest of us all, when each individual is encouraged and supported in the process of finding and contributing his or her particular gifts and talents. 

Each of us needs and deserves the quality of life that will permit her or him to fulfill the Soul's purpose.

My work takes many different forms, because I believe that it is important to transmit this message by direct experience, meeting others where they live and work, and bringing this message in as spirit food to the "chop wood and carry water" of daily life.

Reverence for life, mutual support and respect, these are ways of being to embody every moment of our lives, in everything we do.

As Albert Einstein said:

"There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."