Perhaps he was looking out for my health, or maybe he just doesn't like the look of his buddy picking up muddy, germ-infested pieces of plastic from the ground. Either way, a dear friend of mine once gently soothed my urgent mother earth-saving psyche with the following words: Don't worry about saving us from a world that's so far gone it'll destroy itself in short order. Start working on meditating yourself off of it.
However thought provoking and expansive his advice, I feel a compulsive need to make even the tiniest daily material effort toward cleaning up the mess my fellow humans seem to compulsively make.
Therefore my life's goals are blending in such a magnificent way that I feel compelled to share them here, in a way to focus them and make them real.
To date, my goal is whittled and polished as follows: To learn ways to compassionately interact with all living beings, lovers, family, friends and strangers while sharing insights on how to live a compassionate lifestyle within the bountiful yet finite realms of our physical planet and its resources.
The first portion of this goal wishes to cultivate compassion on a personal scale to enable me to think, act and speak with loving kindness seeping from every breath. The second is a wish for the cultivation of universal compassion for the earth, and for each and every living, telepathic cell.
Perhaps one day these goals will be the same.
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