Please go here for the full TED Talk and transcript:
"Neoliberal's time has passed.
We need a new politics of belonging."
— George Monbiot
I
am so incredibly grateful for my many wise, conscious, courageous, and
fierce warrior friends fighting for a loving, just, peaceful,
sustainable, and caring world. They help me find links to amazing things
like this TED Talk by George Monbiot.
Tears... Because my heart is so touched...
Through
my own decades long and ongoing personal journey of awakening, healing,
and transformation, I’ve come to deeply understand how critical it is
to first fully see, own, and embrace the truth
about the obstacles to our embodying the loving beings that we all are
in our greater Selves. Half the solution is first seeing the problem.
So
I post a lot about what I’ve been learning about obstacles — our human
illusions and ignorance, our vulnerability to being propagandized and
brainwashed, the ways that we get lost in our addictions and anger and
fears, our propensity to judge and dehumanize and engage in wars large
and small, and the many faces of violence that we often unknowingly
inflict upon ourselves and other beings and the planet. I do this with
the humility and deep compassion of personally knowing what it is to
build walls around my own heart ... AND to also root into the courageous
journey of dismantling the obstacles I’ve built against love.
Because
I’ve long been working to be in this world with my eyes, mind, and
heart open, I often hurt. My heart hurts. Because every year as I grow
older I’m able to be less empathically impaired and more present to my
pain and to that of others. And living more and more open-heartedly
continuously changes me. I save spiders. I haven’t eaten anything with a
face for 13 years. I give out a dollar and deep caring gaze and “bless
you” to every person standing on a street corner holding a “please help”
sign. And my circle of caring just grows and grows and grows. And
having once been addicted and disassociated and largely cut off from the
depths of my own heart and that of anyone else, today I am so grateful
to feel! To be here now! To care!
And
with all the suffering in the world, when I get to listen to someone
like George Monbiot talk about a New Story, I am SO GRATEFUL. Here’s
someone else who is aware and awake and who’s not just describing the
obstacles, but also the SOLUTIONS!
It’s
George Monbiot and Riane Eisler and Joanna Macy and countless other
human beings whose lives are devoted to alleviating the suffering in the
world who nourish and inspire me and give me hope. And I say YES TO A
NEW STORY! — one which illuminates our human capacity to transform
ourselves and evolve and become who we already most deeply are. May it
be so! 🙏 Molly
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