I subscribe to daily quotes/meditation from Don Miguel Ruiz (Four Agreements book), and this one came in the other day...
"What I am is something incredibly magnificent. I am life, and life is the only truth. Every animal, every flower, every rock is life, because everything is full of life. All of us are only one living being, and we come from the same place."
That makes sense to me... Everything is alive... at some level. Rocks might not meet our traditional definition of life, but when you think about it... It makes sense. Everything is vibrating, the air, the earth, the water, the rocks... Everything comes from God and returns to God... In which case, everything is of God, then everything must be life... We just have a very narrow definition of life...
But what would our world look like, if we altered our definition of life? If we treated rocks with respect... and the earth... and water... and air... Does everything have a spirit? Does a chair or a table have a spirit? Does a wooden chair (made from a tree) have more spirit than a chair made from plastic (transformed petroleum)?? Do more natural things (like wool or cotton) have more spirit than manufactured things (like rayon or nylon)? Do we connect more closely with natural things than manufactured things, because spirit is closer to the surface?
Don't know... just wondering...
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