“Just as lovers seek union, we are apt, when we fall in love with our world, to fall into oneness with it as well.” -Joanna Macy

Most people understand that the places they call “home” are precious. Places of safety, nurturance and love.

They may be actual buildings where we keep our stuff and connect with the people we love. They may also be places where we feel we connected to something beyond our ordinary sense of “self”. A special community for instance or our favorite nature spot.

Wherever those places are or whatever form they take, we tend to gravitate toward them because we feel a little less alone. We feel like we belong.

People who feel deeply connected to a place or a community often demonstrate a willingness through their actions to protect and preserve those spaces. If something comes along that threatens them, they leap into action. No one wants their favorite tree cut down or a beloved community broken up by division.

A question that has always perplexed me is why there are threats to our world, such as over-extraction of resources or extreme wealth disparity, that we will tolerate so long as they are not happening to us or those places/beings we identify with?

The answer as far as I have discovered is that we continue to largely experience the world and it’s inhabitants as something distinctly separate from ourselves.

Since we tend to fall in love with the places/beings we feel connected to and conversely act out that love in service to protect those places/beings, then it would seem that the solution to much of the suffering of the world is for us to cultivate love for all that we experience. Even those experiences that we judge to be bad or wrong or undesirable.

Love leads to action and action leads to change.

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