Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 6 essays tagged listening to nature
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39. The Knowing Inside: Sovereignty of Mind
Or why sovereignty of mind is the first requirement of democracy
Feb 12, 2025
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49. Just Listening
As if the surest foundation for life is none at all, just listening. Simply listening.
Apr 13, 2024
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39. The Knowing Inside
It's hard to listen to your own heart in a world that demands you listen to everyone else first
Apr 14, 2023
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11. Turning Our Faces Into the Water
A whole other world carrying on just below the surface of the sea—and a rich metaphor for the split between matter and spirit in Western thought
Aug 14, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.