Reshaping the world
Quote of the day
‘You have that power to change the Earth and
your life. It just takes a bit of courage and participation from each one of
us. Two hands are often hard to reshape, resize and reform the Earth, but 14
billion hands makes it a lot easier.’
Greetings and salutations from a very, very cold and icy London town
where temperatures are hovering above zero. I am unduly grateful for your presence on this growing Inspirational
Channel.
Bonus
Quote
‘Our prime motivation is to inspire. Your
prime inspiration is to be motivated.’
I feel saddened by the atrocities of our world. In the current form
nuclear weapons poses a huge threat to world stability. Climate change has seen drastic changes in weather patterns. The
Earth is warming up and species of life and their habitats are diminishing. Viral outbreaks like Ebola takes the world by storm leaving
thousands dead. Poverty is a growing problem too. Each day 22,000 children die as a result of poverty. When we entered
the 21st Century over a billion people were still illiterate. In Syria, one of the oldest places on Earth where civilization has
once started is still in turmoil. Thousands of human beings have died. The world is now infested with short, medium and long term problems
from racism, human trafficking to petty crime. As human beings, the sole custodians of the living world we need to
join hands together and effectively do something about it. It may be a mammoth task for just one individual but a joyous task
if all 7 billion of us worked together. One of our greatest sources of inspiration comes from knowledge. I
call it the Tree of Knowledge. From a single tree comes
forth a forest, a haven for all and heaven for some. From the forest comes forth
the ocean of life. In it the rivers create the valleys and the
dunes with each blade of grass and each grain of sand accounted for. Such an opening
of life with two, four or a hundred legs comes the nature of life. Amongst them
are you and me with appendages adapted for our needs. The river, the valley,
the forest, the ocean, the crops, the animals and the plants are all under our
supervision. As supervisors we have failed over the millenniums and now the
world has become tainted. To an onlooker from the outsider the Earth is no
longer a paradise. The tree of knowledge is hidden amongst the chaos and the
spiral wheel of life has become encoded with human greed. Mars is inhabited
with a few microorganisms to meet the needs of Mars. The Earth is inhabited by
many macro organisms to meet the need of their greed. Now
the valley of knowledge is no longer green but tainted with doubt, conflict and
conjecture instead? From a distance it may look uniform but on close examination all
things in life have that constant taint of human greed. This is why our Earth
lacks the beauty of a Paradise, of the original Eden. The Earth has been
wounded over the centuries and has changed in shape, size and form. Migrant workers are
constantly trying to repair it but the damage is too extensive. If only man could get
his shoulders to the wheel and his mind in perspective, then there is a hope
for the Earth to return to its original condition. You have that power to
change the Earth and your life. It just takes a bit of courage and
participation from each one of us. Two hands are often hard to reshape, resize
and reform the Earth, but 14 billion hands makes it a lot easier.’ So, when life falls to pieces we need to hold hands together to
restore peace and equanimity. Have a wonderful Thursday.
