Living With a Peaceful Mind

One of the challenges of being an environmentally oriented individual is the complete and utter confusion of growing up in this era of mass production, mass consumption, thoughtless action toward each other, and general neglect of relationships between human and the non-human world.

However, I believe that there is a great deal of momentum towards a more balanced and meaningful relationship with the earth and the resources we are provided. There are more and more people who do not want a "piece of the pie" seeing as it is an irradiated, GMO-filled, cancer causing, libido-killing, diabetes causing, homogenized, mess that is not actually something designed for eating.

Winter = resting

Summer = growing

Moving away from the familiar, regardless of how painful the familiar might be, is always hard. The makings of a meaningful life is an entirely personal matter and the feeling of being alone in your convictions can be exhausting.  I do think that for many people, knowing their place within a larger, beautifully functional system heals us of this mistaken loneliness. The very presence of the ground promises us that we will be fed, the sky promises us water, the forest promises shelter. Through our gentleness, respect for and care of the earth we are endlessly provided with what we need to survive.   I have found living closely to the earth to be my greatest joy. From the wisdom and sanity of  its natural rhythm we can learn to live as if this world before us was not chaotic and dangerous, but as though it is symphonic in nature, punctuated with great joy, and great loss, with understanding and confusion, with love and death, all with its own place, all with its wisdom, and all of this resounding with the energy of simply being true. The greatest benefit of knowing that something is true is the ability to trust it.