Via truthout: Rumi's Field
By alexa
Keeping the biggest possible picture in mind, paradoxically, may give us the best lens through which to focus clearly upon the messy details of our lives at every level - internationally, nationally, locally, even personally.
How big a picture? Try: the whole earth and everything and everyone on it, through hundreds of millions of years of time.
What can this abstract immensity have to do with our own lives? More than we think, because we really are a product of the changes the earth has undergone over eons and we are totally subject to the rules that dictated those changes. By rules we mean big processes, ones we are still trying to fully understand. Processes like evolution itself.
Winslow Myers, the author of "Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide," serves on the board of Beyond War (www.beyondwar.org [5]), a nonprofit educational foundation whose mission is to explore, model and promote the means for humanity to live without war.
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