Marianne Williamson Instagram – When I was a child my sister and I had Russian dolls. They were the kind where small wooden dolls were inside larger wooden dolls were inside larger wooden dolls were inside larger wooden dolls were inside larger wooden dolls were inside larger wooden dolls.
That’s a bit how life works. Your emotional life is inside your psychological state is inside your physical health is inside your family is inside your friendships is inside your work is inside your community is inside your country’s politics is inside the global climate is inside the state of world events.
Much easier to handle all that when it’s just dolls; with dolls, they’re wooden and none of them are falling apart. In real life, if enough of the pieces are weakened then the whole system begins to break down.
Of course bad things happen, and they always did. But if you have a good relationship you can better handle sorrow, if you have good mental health you can better handle sickness, if you have a good government you can better handle a community crisis, if you have a good overall climate you can better handle individual storms.
What we’re experiencing now is an all-systems breakdown, and it requires an all systems response. None of the areas are going to fundamentally improve unless all of the areas begin to improve. If a fourteen year old shoots and kills his teachers and fellow students at school, you can’t separate it from the father who gave him the gun, but also you can’t separate it from a lack of mental health treatment, you can’t separate it from the economic and social systems the father himself grew out of, you can’t separate it from the corruption in Washington that allows the NRA to have so much power, you can’t separate it from violence in the media, you can’t separate it from the emotional and psychological violence on social media, and on and on and on.
The rot these days is deep inside the wood. And no one but ourselves can dig it out.
I’m reminded of a quote by the Dalai Lama. He said, “In order to save the world we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.”
Why? Because …
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