Choose to do no harm to any living creature

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

E. O. Wilson

Meditation

There is nothing more rewarding, nor challenging than sitting in the silence of nature.

Part of Something Greater

"Our places give shelter. That is a given.

Focused only on ourselves, filled with possessions, trying
to impress others, they deny the unity of all.

Connection with the greater truths of otherness has far
greater import than minutiae of our lives.

Focus on ourselves is endless looking in a mirror, reading the same story, replaying the same tape.
There's more richness, new stories, adventures beyond the mirror. The truth of ourselves includes the selves on the outside of our skins, and inside other of our skins.

Bring those lives into your life."

Tom Bender

Hagen, Chapter 10 Notes: The Warp & Woof of Reality

Once we accept dysfunction, take it in to be "normal," or alright, we live in illusion.

Nature is intentional, equanimous, interrelated. We are often at our most skilled when we choose to do nothing. It often takes great restraint and self-discipline to choose to not interfere with the cycle of life.

In our work places we can begin to notice the waterfall of problems that can be caused when we over-manage. Our discomfort with conflict and progress leads us to develop committees that slow decision-making often times about things that are inevitable. In my own workplace we find ourselves uncomfortable with the natural energy of students. We hurry them to be quiet, then wonder why they're not engaged. We then create committees to explore strategies to increase student engagement.

We grow when we act in accord with nature; the grass doesn't need to be told to grow.