Helping Hands - Lions Roar
We can’t say that human lives have a purpose, since a purpose would be smaller than we are. It’s true though, that the impulse to give freely to the world seems to be at the bottom of the well of human intentions where the purest and clearest water arises. To be able to offer back what the world has given you, but shaped a little by your touch—that
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In our world of relative comfort and convenience, it’s easy to convince ourselves that we have created everything for ourselves, that we’ve earned all this. We’ve lost sight of the fact that this life is a gift, that all that sustains us is a gift. We’ve lost touch with that sense of gratitude, the same way we’ve lost touch with our mortality. The
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Eiseley’s core point in his essay describing that event is that everything in nature is connected with everything else, and that you can understand this if you simply lie back and let that awareness wash over you. In social life, too, everybody is connected to everybody else by our shared common humanity. Sometimes we need to hitch a ride on someon
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If we continue to measure our lives by standards of self-determination, self-actualization, self-reliance, self-betterment, self-caregiving just to get wiser, happier, and healthier seems like a strange path.
But if we change our orientation to one of interdependence, seeing humans as a web of twisted roots, a vision of interdependence allows for us
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