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Mostly what you said, for humans to bring themselves to equal tooting with all the other animals. To see that we are animals too. Coming to understand our intricate connection as the web of life for we are related to everything! And to naturally protect, care and tend to those around us.

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Yes. That’s so beautiful, that our instinct to protect will naturally arise when we recognize ourselves as animals too!! Thank you 💔🙏🐾🕊️

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You quote Stafford, who had a 'late' start to his career. And in the thread of what you said, it is not too 'late' to tend, and continue to tend to ourselves and others. The hidden river of the heart, or perhaps the more obvious one, is to keep going along with it, even if it at times it rerouts. In that spirit, you might like the Swedish-Finnish author Mark Levengood. He wrote a story/book "Hjärtat får inga rynkor." The heart doesn't get wrinkles.

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This is such a fascinating point.. thank you for bringing up time. When we are in the truth of the creative heart… also could be seen as being in “soul” as tethered to all things arising from earth… we are accessing a different measure of time than our daily realities. Like Joanna Macy says, we should really start acting our age… which is billions of years old, like the earth 🙃 it is very interesting to think about the timelessness of following the heart’s creative flow.. that it’s endless. I’ve never heard of mark and I’m excited, thank you 🥰🙏

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Beautifully said! This reminds me of an essay I read yesterday morning that I think you may also enjoy. https://cac.org/daily-meditations/looking-is-an-act-of-love/

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Wow thanks so much for sharing with me, can’t wait to read!! 😘🙏🌈

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I would end the paradigm of separation, which is more or less the same thing ❤️.

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Can we make that a bumper sticker please? 😅🙏🌈

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I feel the same way. For everyone everywhere to remember that we are connected to each other and to nature itself. Just imagine how things might be if that could occur.

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Yes, I actually can just barely begun to imagine it, especially when reading your comment.. it fills my heart with hope for what is possible when we say it out loud!

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All things are united.

https://wisdomschool.com/p/panpsychism-the-universe-isnt-deadits?r=3le9sh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The UNIverse is alive.

All the things in nature are together in one place.

Each thing is moved by Nature’s pattern or Way.

Signals give direction. 🔄

The whole divides in to parts. 🧬

The parts move around and in and out of each other.

Like water flowing in rivers 💦 and oceans 🌊 and changing into vapor 💨 and snow ⛄️❄️and ice 🧊.

The water flows in and out of creatures 🐿️ and plants 🌱.

Every part is circulating, round and round. 💫☄️🪐⛈️🌪️

Things unFold 🌱 then enFold 🍂 .

Everything in the UNIverse fits 🧩

because each part belongs

to the ONE whole AWARE cosmic song 🎻 and dance 💃🏻.

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one cosmic song 🥹🌈🌌

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This was just what I needed this morning, thank you Kate.

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Thank you for reading, I’m so glad it found you at the right moment 🕊️🙏

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