Highlights
To love fully, to love completely has a sense of letting what I love be as they are. I don’t need to correct or manipulate what I love. I don’t need to control it. It’s not the object of my will, but there is a letting and allowing and a deep appreciation for whatever comes forth, that love is total acceptance for the completeness and strangeness, and even the pain, the suffering, the foibles, the warts, the toxicity.
The tension for me is about accepting and allowing our earth and our love for our earth, while at the same time protecting, resisting, engaging, participating, protesting, blocking, advocating.
I want to invite us to extend our awe and our wonder to petrochemical plants. It’s a different kind of wonder and awe. But as long as our eco dharma only focuses on this imagined fantasy of the earth, and we’re not able to incorporate at least some kind of awe, wonder, amazement, pain at the level of toxicity and change, I think we have a very limited sense of wonder.
We’re entering an age where ecological trust is questionable and you can feel it rippling through your own bodies, through our cultural knowledges, our sense of ecological anxiety. How do we discover trust again? Because trust fosters love.
This endless giving and abundance, it’s just so amazing. Every second the Earth is giving nourishment, food, oxygen support, gravity, beauty. We are living in this gift. Our bodies are the outflowing of this gift. Our very sense and capacity to sense and feel is this gift. Even feeling lonely and isolated is the gift of the Earth.
The transcript for this talk can be found here.
