As An Individual Soul.
Dec. 3rd, 2011 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
In deep and lasting ways, when we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls.
Friday 25th
I cannot help but wonder if this is also true the other way around also. How much does environmental unrest affect the individual souls within a place or community?
I'm in a place right now where there is a lot of environmental unrest. Where community members are rioting, fighting for what they believe will lead them forward, but in the wider community it's causing those of us outside of that a lot of worry and unrest. It's more pronounced with the colleagues that live closer in to the centre of Cairo, where the unrest reaches out toward them, where it can be heard, and affects them more than it does those of us far away in our gated community, but I have heard small bursts of isolated gunfire coming from outside of Rehab City. It was brief, just maybe three or four shots a couple of times in succession, but it was a reminder of the issues being faced elsewhere in the country.
Normally I would be able to stay up late today, but since tomorrow is a training day for us, it means the weekend will be shorter than usual. While I'm not really phased by that – I'm still adjusting to the fact that the 'weekend' is Friday and Saturday instead of Saturday and Sunday – my colleagues who are used to that have been bemoaning the fact very vocally. The way I see it, it's all PD and we do get a certificate for it, and it's only an afternoon – add to that we have no kids on Monday... *shrug*
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These are your greatest treasures.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
--Lao-tzu
In deep and lasting ways, when we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls.
Friday 25th
I cannot help but wonder if this is also true the other way around also. How much does environmental unrest affect the individual souls within a place or community?
I'm in a place right now where there is a lot of environmental unrest. Where community members are rioting, fighting for what they believe will lead them forward, but in the wider community it's causing those of us outside of that a lot of worry and unrest. It's more pronounced with the colleagues that live closer in to the centre of Cairo, where the unrest reaches out toward them, where it can be heard, and affects them more than it does those of us far away in our gated community, but I have heard small bursts of isolated gunfire coming from outside of Rehab City. It was brief, just maybe three or four shots a couple of times in succession, but it was a reminder of the issues being faced elsewhere in the country.
Normally I would be able to stay up late today, but since tomorrow is a training day for us, it means the weekend will be shorter than usual. While I'm not really phased by that – I'm still adjusting to the fact that the 'weekend' is Friday and Saturday instead of Saturday and Sunday – my colleagues who are used to that have been bemoaning the fact very vocally. The way I see it, it's all PD and we do get a certificate for it, and it's only an afternoon – add to that we have no kids on Monday... *shrug*
