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It could ! but ....... it will be sad (at least for me) I love the connection with nature and natural processes
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - May 26 "The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of all things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization." --Luther Standing Bear, OGLALA SIOUX There is a concept that says you move toward and become that which you think about. If we think about everything as interconnected and interrelated, we will begin to accept the greater whole and that there is a power who is in charge. If we see the cycles of life, if we see the inner powers, if we see the interdependence of the universe, then we will participate in a harmonious way. We all need to pray and meditate on this. We need to understand the property of unity. My Creator, let me have the insights of nature and give me the power of acceptance.
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We may reach that point when the beauty of nature around us fails to move a single human soul. Here's hoping that day never arrives, for when it does a part of us dies forever. Even in our sci-fi entertainment people of the future carry "arboretums" on their spaceships and crave stopovers at planets where they can partake of nature.
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We are part of nature, and nature is part of us. We are all one. "Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. . . . In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It "inter-is" with everything else in the universe. . . . When we see the nature of inter-being, barriers between ourselves and others are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding are possible. Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born. (Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, pp 10-11 We exist in inter-being with all that is. To live apart from nature is to live apart from all that is within us, to live in alienation.
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to move away form nature is to move away form yourself .. Are we tied to nature indefinitely? (no) Could we ever get to a point where the human race is completely self-sustainable? (no) one-word answer might seem obvious, but let's use our imaginations (done)
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