I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness

By Cutting Ourselves Off From The Rest Of Creation, We Are Left Bereft Of Awe And Wonder And Therefore Of Reverence And Gratitude. We Violate Our Very Beings, And We Have Nothing But Trivia To Teach Our Young.

The System Is Not Working. That Is How A Paradigm Shift Begins: The Established Way Of Seeing The World No Longer Functions.

A Global Awakening Can Only Happen From A Spiritual Awakening That Is Of Global Dimensions.

Animals Teach Us About The Animals In Ourselves. We Need Their Spirits.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.