I don't know about you, but I'm feeling a bit bewildered these days. As many people are saying these days, "You just can't make this stuff up!" But this is exactly what too many people keep doing - making stuff up.
It seems as though with each new day there is another truthless twist in the entangled world of national and global "
Perhaps it seems bizarre partly because we have lived for so long with false assumptions of independence, individuality, and autonomy. As these illusions and assumptions disappear we discover that we truly are connected with and dependent on each other and our environment. However, ensconced worldviews do not crumble easily and often crash violently, creating chaos and suspicion.
At the same time we are also learning that living with integrity in a truly global community requires honesty, sharing, compassion, forgiveness, justice, and above all love. But isn't this what our world spiritual traditions have been telling us for eons? We really are One Human Family within One Creation. Now that's something you can't make up!
Our spiritual tradition does indeed tell us we are one. One is difficult, once we include others; but inclusion is what it's all about. As G. K. Chesterton once wrote: "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
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