George Washington quote on whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves

Michael Jaco • Mike Jaco, [11/15/2021 7:55 PM] https://t.me/MikeJaco


"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves;


Whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them.  

The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army.


Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect.


We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.


Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.

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The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from Tyranny meditated against them.  


Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."


~George Washington


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Steve Rother: Predictions, Comments and Questions for October 2017 and Beyond

Predictions, Comments and Questions
for October 2017 and Beyond

Steve Rother

Published on Sep 18, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-CZBvO91HA

Predictions, Comments and Questions
for November 2017

Steve Rother

Streamed live on Oct 13, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NDlNHWzQY&t=124s

ONENESS OF ALL: ARCTURIAN GROUP MESSAGE FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 BY MARILYN RAFFAELE

ONENESS OF ALL: ARCTURIAN GROUP MESSAGE FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 BY MARILYN RAFFAELE Dear ones, the message for these changing times is an assurance that all is on track and the world has not lost its way. Rather, it is the obsolete belief system that is losing its way even as many struggle to hold it in place. False concepts and beliefs can only dissipate in the presence of ever increasing energies of Truth where there is nothing to sustain them. Change for many has been unpleasant and not in alignment with the material sense of comfort and security. However, what is taking place is necessary for Gaia as well as all upon her in order to clear the multiple layers of dense energy formed of duality and separation that she has stored and carried through centuries. Incoming souls often choose to experience some sort of difficult or life changing event during their lifetime on earth. This is a free-will, pre-birth choice made for purposes of learning something necessary for soul growth that perhaps they have long been ready for but have not learned in easier lifetimes. Soul groups as well will often choose to experience something together in order to clear and resolve a collective karma. You are witnessing this now as certain groups around the world experience great loss and pain. The very things that seem so wrong according to three dimensional thinking, are often necessary and perfect in order to tip the balance forward for a soul or soul group. This does not mean you stand back and say; "Oh well, they chose this.", but means you have a better understanding of world situations and from that place of awareness are able to send light and help without adding negative energy to the situation. The old no longer holds the power it once did because collective consciousness is becoming increasingly evolved. Individuals are awakening and beginning to acknowledge and reclaim their innate power. Those ignorant of their true identity as spiritual beings continue allowing others to take their power--governments, churches, experts, corporations, and individuals who live from a righteous sense of empowerment disguised as knowing what is best for them. In spite of appearances, love is becoming more and more prevalent on earth as individuals awaken into a new sense of connection and move beyond concepts of separation. This is the hidden gift of "disasters". Love is being felt and expressed by many who do not understand that their desire to help others is actually love. Love flows in forms relevant to the attained state of consciousness of an individual who may himself simply see his actions as practical responses to some situation. There are those who always step in where they see a need, "ordinary" people providing clothing, food, and material goods while never considering their actions to be love. Others help on emotional and mental levels, providing guidance and support. This is love (activities of oneness) regardless of what it is called. The intense needs of so many at this time is serving to draw the world more deeply into love through service which is why many choose pre-birth, to experience or be a part of some catastrophic event. As you already know, the more illumined an attained state of consciousness is, the deeper and more clear is the person's realization of love as being the connecting energy between the many within the ONE. Spiritual evolution is simply a journey in which every soul moves either quickly or slowly into increasingly higher levels of this awareness. All who in some way selflessly serve Gaia and her life forms are loving, even if they are only able to see it as; "Doing their job." or "Being practical" etc. at this point. There are some (often well known people desirous of publicity) whose present state of consciousness only allows them to perform actions of service primarily for purposes of receiving praise and attention from others, with no real concern for the recipients, be they people, plants or animals. However even this low level of service can be the beginning point from which will unfold a deeper sense of service as love. It is important to understand the difference between loving and enabling. Many still believe that loving means doing whatever it takes to make someone else happy, often at the expense of their own personal power and growth. Other individual's situations may very well be a part of their chosen pre-birth contract for learning, clearing, and moving beyond the active energies of some old cellular memory. Love is having one's hand ready to grasp the hand of another who is reaching out for additional help to their own efforts, but love is not a reaching down into the gutter in order to lift up someone out who is making no personal effort or even seeing any need to be elsewhere. Individuals must themselves choose (consciously or unconsciously) to leave a "gutter consciousness" they themselves have created. If, in self righteous zeal a person tries to force another into a state of consciousness they may not yet be ready for, they remove the lesson and become an enabler. Many students of truth remain confused on this point because in their sincere effort to become loving they try to fix, heal, or change everyone struggling and not seeing the world as they do. This is done through words (proselytizing) or actions (stepping in and changing things), or simply through sympathetic alignment--all of which will add energy to the situation. Love often requires a person to step aside and allow another to fall flat on their face which can be very difficult when the other is a loved one. Never forget that the person's true nature is Divine no matter what the appearances may be. This is the higher work and if the other person is receptive or ready for change, your loving realization of his true nature can shift his awareness, allowing him to see and be more receptive to the bigger picture. Always trust your intuition in these types of situations--"Does this person really want help, or is he simply looking for someone to ease his way back into his chosen lifestyle?". There are certain individuals who thrive on being "victims" because it brings the attention they crave with no effort other than to keep repeating and elaborating the details of their victim-hood to anyone who will listen which perfectly serves to produce more victim situations. You are creators. When another is sincerely trying to grow and change their life for the better and reaches out, that is when you firmly grasp their hand and assist them in whatever ways you are able (physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually) to where they themselves are choosing to be. It may simply be guiding them to them to where they can get the help they seek. It is difficult to determine these things strictly from observation and is where your intuitive gifts must come into play. You are Lightworkers, which means that you are evolved enough to engage with the world from levels of Light and awareness, not according to three dimensional concepts of love and service which often include a surrender of personal power. Love never means being a door mat. Love is never about attempting to mold yourselves into the holy card image of a "saint" with eyes lifted to heaven and hands folded meekly. Love often means taking a stand, and saying "No" when it is appropriate. Love allows others to experience and learn from their mistakes. Love is observant and knows the difference between a want and a need. Love is a recognition of every individual's true Divine nature regardless of how far from that they may appear. Love is being willing to step in with guidance when asked, but is also the ability to step back when not asked. Love is being firm if your child in his immaturity is making bad choices, but love also allows him to experience the consequences of a bad choice. Love is the realization of oneness on all levels-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Love knows that all life forms express the One life. You are and can only ever be love because love is the energy that flows in, as, and through all things. Love is not an emotion although it often expresses through the emotions. Love is the Divine Engine that is God with all Its parts functioning in perfectly order infinitely by law--  manifesting in the physical as the human heart. 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DAILY OM ~ Ocean Meditation: Waves of Healing

~ daily om ~ Ocean Meditation: Waves of Healing

by Madisyn Taylor There is much we can learn from the ocean as we have a similar inner landscape within us as well. Like us, the sea is ever-changing. And, like us, the earth's vast oceans appear at a distance to be stable and homogenous. But beneath the mask of solidity that both we and the sea wear, there lies unpredictability, sensitivity, and power. There is much we can learn from the ocean, representative as it is of our inner landscapes. The rough sounds of the sea's waves are spiritually soothing, and its salt can purify our physical selves. Yet not everyone has the luxury of living by the shore or even visiting the coastlines where water and land meet. The ocean, however, exists in our conscious minds, put there by images we have seen and descriptions we have read. Wherever we are, we can access that mental image and use it as the starting point from which we can help to heal our emotions by meditating on the sea. To begin, gather together any ocean artifacts you may have on hand. Seashells, a vial of sand, beach glass, stones rubbed smooth by the pounding surf, or a recording of ocean sounds can help you slip more deeply into this meditation, but they are not necessary. Sit quietly and visualize the ocean in your mind's eye. Allow all of your senses to participate in your mental journey. Feel the tiny grains of sand beneath your feet and the cool spray of mist; hear the sea's rhythmic roar as the waves meet the beach and retreat; smell the tang of salt in the air. Watch the sun's rays play over the ocean's surface, creating shifting spots of teal, cerulean, cobalt, and green. Don't be surprised if you see dolphins or whales frolicking in the waves--they are there to assist you. Spend a few minutes drinking in the ocean's beauty and appreciating its vast splendor. Once you are fully engaged with the setting before you, visualize yourself sitting on the beach, facing the ocean, and watching the waves advance and retreat. As each new wave of seawater approaches, imagine it carrying healing energy toward you. The magnificent ocean in your thoughts is sending you light and love while the sun supports your healing efforts and Mother Earth grounds you in the moment so healing can occur. When you feel you are finished, grant the ocean your earnest gratitude for the aid it has given you. Thank the sun, the sand, and any other elements of your visualization that offered you guidance. Perform this meditation daily or monthly in order to rid yourself of negativity and reestablish emotional equilibrium. Just as the ocean's tides sweep the shores free of detritus, restoring balance, so can the waves in our mind's eye cleanse our souls of what no longer serves us. http://dailyom.com/cgi-bin/display/articledisplay.cgi?aid=58651

10 Things to Remind Yourself Daily | Purpose Fairy

10 Things to Remind Yourself Daily | Purpose Fairy


1. Change Is The Only Constant In Life
What does this mean? It means that no matter how much we try to avoid change, it will be impossible to do so, since change is the only constant in life.

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

2. Nothing Lasts Forever
Nothing ever lasts forever, and this is exactly why we need to learn to detach from things, places and people in our lives and, when the time comes to say goodbye, to let them all go and to do it with dignity.

“Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, avoid the b.s, take chances and never regret because at one point it was what you wanted.” ~ Unknown

3. You Judge Others for the Things You Haven’t Accepted in Yourself
The traits we dislike in others are the traits we dislike in ourselves. This is something most of us can’t even grasp and we get irritated when we hear such things, especially when we are all thinking so highly of ourselves and we know for sure that we are perfect and they are not.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

4. You Can’t Force Love
Love comes because it wants to come, not because we want it to come. Our family, friends, co-workers, lovers — they all love us because they choose to, not because we want them to, and the same applies to you. Love is meant to be felt, enjoyed and lived, not to be forced on anyone.

“You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.” ~ Richelle Mead

5. Mistakes are Part of Life
As you walk through life, you will fall down many times. You will fail and you make mistakes, but that’s okay. Life is like that. Never forget that life is a process of becoming and that through every every painful and humiliating experience and through every hurtful and heartbreaking interaction, you craft yourself and you build your life. Through everything that happens to you, either good or bad, you gain all the wisdom, strength, knowledge and confidence to do the things that you are meant to do. And to live the life that you are meant to live. That’s what life is all about.

“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” ~ Alfred Adler

6. What You Resist, Persists
The more we fight against certain things, life circumstances, events, people, ideas, etc., the more we will be contributing to their growth and persistence into our daily lives. Learn to shift your focus from that which you are against to that which you are for, and to that which you wish to attract into your daily life and watch how your life will be transformed.

“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

7. Your Thoughts Create your Reality
Thoughts have power, great power – creative power. With every thought that you think you craft and shape your life in one way or another. The life you are now living is the result of all the thoughts you have thought up until this moment. Your present level of self esteem, your confidence and your sense of self worth were determined by all the thoughts you have ever thought and all the words you have ever said to yourself. The quality of your present relationships, the way you look at the world, your beliefs and limitations, your fears and insecurities, they are all the result of the many thoughts you kept affirming to yourself.

We are where we are right now because of the thoughts we thought, and our lives look the way they do because of the thoughts we thought over and over again. If the thoughts that run though our minds are pure, positive and empowering, we will create positive and empowering beliefs about ourselves and about life, and our actions will be a reflection of these thoughts and beliefs.

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” ~ Unknown

8. There Comes A Time In Your Life When You Really Need To Let Go
“There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.” ~ Karl Marx (composer)

There comes a time in our lives when we are asked to let go of certain things, ideas, people and places. And when that happens, we need to learn to let go with grace. We need to trust our natural instincts and we need to trust in the natural flow of life. Because just like Buddha said it, “You can only lose what you cling to.”

9. You’ll Only Regret the Things you Don’t Do
Whenever you want to do something but you are too afraid to do it because of what might happen after that, I want you to remember about this study that was performed on elderly individuals a few years back, that has shown how during old age, most of these people have regrets about the many things they didn’t have the courage to do as opposed to the things they did do.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

10. You Can’t Control Other People’s Behaviors, You Only Think You Can
It’s funny how the closer we are to a person the more rights we think we have to control them and their lives without realizing the only thing we can control is our attitude towards them and their behavior, that’s all.

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer

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Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution ~ Monday, September 22, 2014 Equinox: Honouring birth and death

Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution ~ Monday, September 22, 2014
Equinox: Honouring birth and death

September 23 is always a special day for our family. It’s the anniversary of my mum’s passing, and my partner Christian’s birthday. People sometimes ask is it strange to have those two things on the same day. I always say no, it more feels like a poignant reminder of the cycle of life.  People are being born every day, and people leave this Earth every day. Experiencing the death of someone close to you often makes you have a stronger connection to life and living, as you truly realise that your time here is not forever. So this annual honouring of a birth and a death is really a simultaneous honouring and celebration of life.

            Quite fittingly, it co-incides with the Equinox when day and night are equal in length. I like this energetic influence, adding to the reminder that on this see-saw of life we can find a harmony and balance when we look at the value of all things rather than putting them in categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.  The Equinox asks us to respect both sides of the see-saw: winter has a purpose, grief can be cleansing and transformational.

Equinox and all of Nature also teaches us that life keeps moving, all the time. Equinox only lasts 24 hours before the days start getting longer (or shorter depending on which hemisphere you’re in).  We are shown that nothing lasts forever so appreciate what you have while you have it. We are also shown that no matter how bad things look or feel, ‘this too shall pass’. Spring always follows winter, and the sun always rises even after the darkest of nights.

Our mum had a big heart, and now in the non-physical I know she has even bigger wings, ready to help anyone who asks just as she did in life. One of her greatest wishes was to make her healings ‘bigger, bigger’, and so most years on this day I say to everyone who needs it: if you need a mum hug, or some healing vibes from someone who had a knack of never judging anyone, ask for Miki upstairs. She’s the one with all the jingly jewellery, giggling away.

© Dana Mrkich 2014

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4 Enlightened Tasks of Grief and Loss | OM TIMES

4 Enlightened Tasks of Grief and Loss | OM TIMES
by Georgi Y. Johnson

When someone we love dies, a process is initiated beyond our control and choosing, a process which will transform who we are and who we were about to become. Just as each birth and each death is unique, so each process of grief is also individually unique and hardly comparable to any other.

Such is the impact of a death on friends and family, that it is almost too clinical to label the resulting acceleration of transformation as a “process”. As such, this is a subject to be handled with great tenderness and care.


The Four Tasks in Grief Therapy

Classically, the grief process has been divided into four tasks of grief – which can happen in any order and simultaneously, continuing until a sense of peace is found. These include:

To process the shock or denial that a loved one has passed away.

To feel the feelings – including unwelcome feelings such as anger, guilt or a sense of abandonment.

To adjust to a daily life without the loved one.

To relocate the love for the other in the heart/heaven/ or other dimension according to beliefs.

For those with a strong spiritual inclination, the tasks of grief are no less challenging. Regardless of beliefs or spiritual attainment, these tasks seem to broadly fit the basic human emotional and psychological processes in facing loss. However, precisely for these people, a sudden death of a loved one can add to the loss a significant breakage in belief systems together with an even deeper faith crisis revealing core issues with physical existence or with God, the absolute, or the universe.

Enlightened Grieving

Grief processes potently reveal the circulation of existence through form – a core circulation in inner growth and self-development. The cycle of coming into physical life, leading to physical manifestation, followed by a letting go and returning to source ready for the next cycle is part of every moment of human living.

Yet we have issues not only with the “death” or release/letting go stage, we also can come into difficulty with the agreement to move outwards again into manifestation. We think that death is our greatest fear, yet for many who suffer extreme loss, the greatest challenge is to go on living an anyway finite physical life without the loved one.

Grief and loss, even if it happened decades ago, always reveals a crack in our normal ‘reality’, This crack shines like a light to remind us of our mortality and the preciousness of life. As such, grief and loss does bring a silent gift: the opportunity for refining our spiritual awakening and integration of that light within all planes of life. As spirituality becomes more recognized by psychology, it could be worthwhile to add four spiritual tasks to support the spiritual practitioner in processes of grief and loss.


4 Spiritual Tasks for Processing Grief and Loss

1. Feeling the feeling into reunion

Human emotion and feeling as it arises in pure form in our awareness is a natural part of the shock and grief of losing a loved one. There is a freeze in energy which creates quite a shield and can lead to long-term shut-down or depression. Some grief processes can be stalled like this – effecting all aspects of living – for decades.

Allowance of the feelings is the first stage, and spiritual practitioners can be of service to themselves be being loyal to the existential – to whatever is there in the here and now – without holding, defining, naming or repressing. Through allowing the existential, perception through awareness – the window of being through which we “feel” – becomes a carrier of love and peace. This means the pain of loss is experience and welcomed into the aware arms of inner love. This love meets the love frozen within the pain of grief. Pain is composed of love: if we did not love the other so much, the grief would not be so strong. In this remembering, the pain is able to loosen and return to its source which is the love for the one that is lost.

The same principle applies to anger or feelings of abandonment. These feelings are the energy of “home” – (a fine and intimate blend of love and peace) which emanates from around and below the navel. In meeting these feelings with the welcome of the inner home, by allowing that home to exist unconditionally, the transformation to source is simpler.


2. Wishing well for the loved one

As spiritual seekers, we live our lives committed to transformation and liberation. We learn through experience that to truly wish well for the other is to truly be of service to ourselves. We learn that the more we are able to let go of false identities and of the “person” that limits us, the more we become happy, fulfilled and free.

Yet, when someone near us die, the bottom falls out. Around us and within us, we try to find the form of the one that has passed – albeit “on the other side”. We picture them as they were, we hold onto the flavor of their love as we knew it, we hold onto the story of their life –beginning, middle and end.

Yet, if they were still alive in the form that we knew them, we would be wishing for them to be liberated! From our love, we would want them to be free from identification with the body; free from limiting patterns, and at one in seamless unity with the divine/existential absolute.

Did the reality of death make hypocrites of us?

It is a high task of grief to be able to truly wish the one that has passed to become free in seamless unity with the source of all existence – that is, to be truly free of form. This involves more than acceptance of the loss of the form of the loved one – and moves us into a passionate wishing for the highest transformation possible.

The secret in this is that just as the old Indian wisdom says “to find yourself, you must first lose yourself”, such a way of connecting to the loved on who passed over actually brings them more intimately and existentially close to the peace and love alive in our being.


3. Issues with existence

It is not only by divine grace that many of us became meditators and spiritual seekers. To be honest, it is because difficulties in living in this world as it is drove us inside for comfort, release and freedom. Those who have found a way to live here through “transcending” the world, or drinking deeply from the pools of cosmic unity in order to bring strength, might find that a significant part of a grief process involves the agreement to come back to life. For many there can be an emerging fatigue with the service of human life and even a hidden jealousy towards the loved one that has passed over at being “free” from the trials and challenges of physical existence.

These feelings can reflect deep issues with incarnation and even a long-term resistance towards truly accepting physical form. In other language, it can be anger with God or existence, trimmed with a sense of shame or guilt connected with a belief that physical life is a kind of fall from grace or punishment.

It is highly worthwhile to allow these feelings all the space is to emerge. Within them is the possibility of a deep passion and a deepening compassion which could bring enormous benefit to the world.


4. Emptiness

Outside of the workshops and the meditations, the rock-bottom reality of death, legacies, funerals and the sheer absence of the one that has passed over forces open the perceptive window of emptiness. Unmasked, the spirituality that has sustained us for so long can feel as if it lost its being, as if it has been exposed by a far more “real” truth at the basement of being.

We might have truly believed that “we are not the body”. Yet, when the body of one we love has broken down, we feel our imminent fragility in physical form. Within this deepening, a perception opens of our inherent helplessness together with the transience of all things. The body passes; the mind breaks down; the future we thought we had can collapse; our feelings and emotions change like waves in a turbulent sea. Even the way in which we perceive the world is suddenly purely subjective.

Within this, that which does not change can come forward with enormous strength. The existential “us” behind all perception – witnessing our thoughts, observing our feelings of pain and love, breathing with softness through our flesh and bones as we move through our lives – this existence is a constant. It is the source of our freedom and the source of our ability to be of service to others.

When we allow the awakened source of who we are to express unconditionally through whatever form is arising – be it sadness or joy – we become a source of light to others, if not now, then as an imprint for some distant time.

This has tremendous value. No-one is free of birth and death. We are all abandoned, bereaved and fragile in physical flesh. No one is exempt. This means that there is a tremendous opportunity of service in allowing ourselves to be fearless, vulnerable and open in every given moment.


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About the Author
Georgi Y. Johnson
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is a spiritual teacher and author of I AM HERE – Opening the Windows to Life & Beauty.
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Here-Opening-Windows-Beauty/dp/1782794263

DAILY OM ~ April 4, 2014 Messengers from The Wilderness: Weeds

 "A plant is a weed only within a certain context; one person’s weed is another person’s wildflower."

DAILY  OM ~ April 4, 2014
Messengers from The Wilderness: Weeds
by Madisyn Taylor
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2014/42850.html

"Simply expressed, a weed is any plant that grows where it isn’t wanted. Weeds are defined by their tendency to flourish at the expense of a gardener’s overall vision, and we tend to battle their presence in our yards. It is interesting to consider, though, that a plant is a weed only within a certain context, which is to say that one person’s weed is another person’s wildflower. Most of us have pulled at least one dandelion up by its roots and disposed of it in the interest of preserving the look of a perfect green lawn, yet the dandelion is good medicine, packed with healing properties and vitamin-rich leaves that are a delicious, spicy surprise in a summer salad.

In the wild, there is no such thing as a weed because the overall vision is in the hands of Mother Nature, who accommodates and incorporates all forms of life. In nature, balance is achieved over the long term, without the aid, or interference, of a human supervisor. While one plant may prevail over others for a certain period of time, eventually it will reach an apex and then it will naturally decline, allowing for other forms to be born and survive. This self-regulating realm was the first garden of our ancestors, who learned the art of agriculture from studying the forests and fields of the as yet uncultivated earth. In a sense, weeds are harbingers of this wildness, pushing their way into our well-ordered plots, undermining more delicate flora, and flourishing in spite of us.

The next time you see a weed, you might want to look deeply into its roots, discover its name, its habits, and its possible uses. Instead of seeing an unwanted intruder, you might see a healer offering its leaves for a medicinal tea or its flowers for a colorful salad. At the very least, if you look long enough, you will see a messenger from the wilderness of Mother Earth, reminding you that, even in the most carefully controlled garden, she cannot be completely ruled out. "

Joanna Macy: On how to prepare internally for WHATEVER comes next | Exopermaculture

Joanna Macy: On how to prepare internally for WHATEVER comes next | Exopermaculture

“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive
with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is
speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling
and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great
adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little
band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord
of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It
looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’”