I commented on this several months ago when it was previously posted, but to re-iterate, instead of I against I, we must learn to live as I am I. Love not fear, oneness not separation. Then there will be Peace on Earth.

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Ana Molina: If I were a nail, I would say you hit me right smack in the middle of the head.

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For sara beth....

I know with all the pain in my heart and gut what you are feeling here....i too am terribly hurt by the constant destruction done by greedy people thinking about nothing except the next dollar.......

the only thing that has helped me (and forgive me if i make it sound easy) is one realization.....you cant get mad at a dog because it barks....it is a natural reaction for a dog....you will only waste your energy that is there for good, being mad at something that does not even see its own corruption.

Have you read the mastery of love by Don Miguel Ruiz? It explains this point so well....

i wish you peace...

ps. I too hope all children fall in love with trees....its hard to say no to those big innocent eyes, and if not...maybe they will learn this painfull lesson early, only to grow and help stop it..

never give up hope

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Moutains in Germany and Austria are still places where people can go hiking and even some places they have built retreat houses. If one wants to go there to celebrate the New Year in a mountain hut, one has to book a year in advance.

The Hill of Tara just outside of Dublin in Ireland, a historic place where the Kings of Ireland met. There are now plans to build a motorway through the beautiful area....this is a terrible shame....

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I can't make the jump from being one with /God to not needing to look out fro my view point-- take Mountain Top Removal for one minute.
Someone is blowing up our mountains and taking the coal and creating cheap electrcity, sending coal to korea, china, etc and I don't need to fear them, or hate them because we are all one.?
A Hawaiian on Maui told me that the consciousness of the world was not his, only the consciousness there, on the beach, was his.
I feel oneness with Gauley Mountain, the trees, the rocks, the Rivers, the coal as a water filter, but not with these people/ these exploitive industries. How can I come to peace and love when my home is being devastated?
A hatred is growing inside me that i can not express naturally. Everytime I see the mountains coming down, the valley fills, the tankers of liquid nitrogen, vans of explosives, and the oversize trucks of the parts for the drag lines that create this exponential destruction, I want to destroy the people and their lines- all of them- or worse, to put a curse on them to make all their children fall madly in love with trees.
I love my Appalachia, but ignorance and the want of power (electric) hangs over the people as a tremendous weight of indecision, hesitation and overwhelmed resignation. My love withers as my hatred grows, and I don't know what to tell the screaming trees-- the blood of the mountains poisons the water and the game evaporates like the mist on a parking lot, leaves of skin fall on my mind.

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At the heart of all Deepak's discussions is the basis of the Gita -- worry about your actions, and not the results thereof. It's what makes his words so meaningful. God isn't in the sky; he/she/it is the sky.

gary in florida usa

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Won't our world be a wonderful place when all beings understand and accomodate the
concept of oneness? Most religious dogma, in my opinion, is man made and has very little to do with God/Buddha/Allah/Source, or whomever one call upon as their higher power. Can we possibly all adapt to the concept that "us" versus "them" is defeatist thinking; as an eye for an eye leaves the world blind. How about a bumper sticker that supports universal understanding instead of troops?

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Yes I buy that :-)....beem me up spock...preferably to a nice quite mountain with a few good friends...

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It becomes easier if you picture yourself as an image of yourself in the face of others: doing this makes us concious that we are all part of the same whole, the same being. You harm others then you harm yourself also...
Ana Molina

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While I am not well versed on rastafarianism, I do know several who practice. They use the phrase, I and I, speaking of self and God as one. If our decisions were based on I as myself and I as God, many conflicts would be abolished.

Instead in our world we look at "I" as being me, and "I" as being you. We, so often, look to the differences instead of the commonalities.

Instead of "I" against "I", we should be looking at "I" and "I" as we all have come from the same source. We all share a Oneness, with each other and the world.

I know this is preaching to the choir but, had to put my two cents in.

Love~

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