No artist was ever as inventive as evolution. The interactions of a time and environment have created a richness of diversity that is endlessly astounding. Why shouldn’t we have birds as big as horses or as small as bees?
What animal surprises and delights you?
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” —John Keats
What does the earth say to you?
Our planet is both unimaginably big—home to trillions of life forms of all shapes and sizes—and unimaginably small—just one little planet buzzing around one ordinary star. Both that expansiveness and that intimacy are worth treasuring.
What is the tiniest thing you love about our earth? What is the grandest?
“The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as [people are] faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, [we] respond to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.”
―Liu Xia
How have you connected work on your soul to work for a better world?
It turns out that much of what we trust as common sense is simply a set of assumptions that we have never challenged. It is only when we reach beyond our own particular social locations that we begin to see a fuller picture of the world.
What have you read that made you see the world differently?
