Bart Martens

Attention is the only thing we truly possess. Whatever we pay attention to is a kind of food. By paying attention to something, we accept its imprint and it becomes part of ourselves. To offer something for another person’s attention is not a trivial act. ~ Charles Eisenstein

This is what’s happening to me. What my mind couldn’t understand. As Tchiht Naht Hanh said: The most important thing we can do; is to hear within ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

This incredible crisis for conscious life on Planet Earth can be understood as that. We’ve been thinking that we were consumers, we’ve been thinking that we were

Three stories being enacted right now:

1) Story of corporate capitalism: the industrial growth society

2) The Great Unravelling: get used to it. I like that term so much better than collapse, because it’s what systems do, they don’t just fall over day. They lose their coherence. Their memory

3) The Great Turning: It’s a transition we’re in. We’re in

🏚️ Society is like an out of control house party and the house is about to collapse.

So many of us feel totally trapped inside, blaring music making it impossible for us to think, while we watch the rich dudes doing lines and pouring gasoline over everything.

Take a breath.

🐦‍🔥 Did you know that if you make your way out to the field behind the

We are Life, in human form. Ancestors of the stars and galaxies, children of the oceans and forests. We are Creative expressions of the Universe, as much a part of this planet as the rivers, trees, mountains and butterflies. Every atom of "you" has been a part of this Earth for billions of years, and to Mother Earth each atom shall return. Modern

(5) Capitalism is built on the idea of a free market, where people can choose to sell their labor for wages, but that idea is false as people have to sell their labor to survive. There is no choice.

(6) Back in the 1500s, when Capitalism was introduced in the UK with the enclosure, many refused to work for others to earn a profit. They preferred to

Mother Earth is my employer. She pays me with clean air, clean water, clean food, clean land and then… form that you have a clean spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVP1X8oT7w&ab_channel=ReflectionsofLife