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Love Letter To The Earth, “Can Mother Earth Count on Us?”
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“Love Letter To The Earth” is Zen Master and Peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh’s passionate and personal call to develop an intimate relationship with the source of all life. He shares why our personal happiness is intricately tied to the happiness of our planet and offers clear and concrete practices for connecting with ourselves, each other, and the world around us”
‘Dear Mother, wherever there is soil, water, rock or air, you are there, nourishing me and giving me life. You are present in every cell of my body. My physical body is your physical body, and just as the sun and stars are present in you, they are also present in me. You are not outside of me and I am not outside of you. You are more than just my environment. You are nothing less than myself…
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The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893. Photo: Via The Guardian
I wonder if you are feeling like I do, sick and fed up hearing about Boris Johnson, his lies, cheats and corrupt ways and means, or the NATO and in particular the US and the UK wanting to save, protect, and rescue Ukraine like they did Afghanistan!
To save my sanity, I have posted two lovely and inspiring pieces on our website.
So, if you too, are fed up with the dominant unhealthy media, then, have a look below:
‘Hope is a thing with feathers’
Life, endangered mother nature and the cult of busyness
GCGI: The Pathway to HOPE
In this troubled world the path of hope will save us
‘It is hope that can give meaning to life and which will give us the courage to continue on our way into the future together.’
Photo: ‘Golden eye’ by Andrew Gittos. The winning photo of the BBC’s Countryfile Calendar for 2022
Our Path of Hope is about many things. It is about challenging the norm. It is about volunteerism and service. It is about serving our communities, our world, and caring for our planet, our home. It is about finding out more about ourselves than we ever imagined possible. It is about having a dream. It is about a mission and our vocation in life. It is about believing in our journey and stories. It is all about hope.
A Pick from our Archive
In Search of a Better Tomorrow: Reasons for Hope In Times of Uncertainty
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
Healing the world as if the web of life mattered: In Praise of Ancient Wisdom
Life is too short not to live it simpler
New Year calls us to hope beyond despair and light beyond darkness
Mother Earth is Crying: A Path to Spiritual Ecology and Sustainability
'Nature and Me'-Part I: Educating the Heart and the Soul of Children to Build a Better World
'Nature and Me'-Part II: ‘A new guide to strengthening the relationship between people and nature.’
Nature and Me'-Part III: ‘This is it! The moment so many of you have been waiting for…’
'Nature and Me'- Part IV: Nature to Heal the World
‘Nature and Me'- Part V:A Beautiful and Inspiring Path to repair our relationship with life
‘Nature and Me’: ‘Nature as a Cure for the Sickness of Modern Times’
‘Nature and Me’: ‘200 words to protect the planet’
'Nature and Me': Unlocking a New Vision for a Better World
'Nature and Me': Educating the Heart and the Soul of Children to Build a Better World
‘Nature and Me’: A Beautiful and Inspiring Path to repair our relationship with life
A Joy Forever: John Keats' poetry lives on 200 years after his death
Detaching Nature from Economics is ‘Burning the Library of Life’
Desperately seeking Sophia: The Wisdom of Nature
Embrace the Spirituality of the Autumn Equinox and Discover What it Means to be Human
Season of Creation: Walking Together, Sowing Seeds of Hope
Land As Our Teacher: Rhythms of Nature Ushering in a Better World
On the 250th Birthday of William Wordsworth Let Nature be our Wisest Teacher
Celebrating the joyous Spring with Hopkins and Wordsworth
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
The beauty of living simply: the forgotten wisdom of William Morris
The Time is Now for Values-led Education to Make the World Truly Better and Great Again
In Search of a Better Tomorrow: Reasons for Hope In Times of Uncertainty
The IPCC Report- I Refuse to give up Hope: Earth Is A Mother that Never Dies
Season of Creation: Walking Together, Sowing Seeds of Hope
‘Open our minds and touch our hearts, so we may be attentive to Your gift of creation’
Spirituality and Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves and our Troubled World
I went to the woods to live deliberately- Henry David Thoreau
In this troubled world let the beauty of nature and simple life be our greatest teachers
Are you physically and emotionally drained? I know of a good solution!
Economic Growth: The Index of Misery
The Wisdom of Compassion: The path to Peace, Contentment and Well-being
Our Heritage is Arboreal and interwoven with the Life of Trees, OUR BEST ALLY FOR THE CLIMATE
Towards COP26: Education to Heal the World
Make COP26 The Dawn of a New Beginning
Crisis after Crisis: Ten Steps to Save the World
GCGI is our journey of hope and the sweet fruit of a labour of love. It is free to access, and it is ad-free too. We spend hundreds of hours, volunteering our labour and time, spreading the word about what is good and what matters most. If you think that's a worthy mission, as we do—one with powerful leverage to make the world a better place—then, please consider offering your moral and spiritual support by joining our circle of friends, spreading the word about the GCGI and forwarding the website to all those who may be interested.
Mindfulness - Glass ball in girls hand during sunset at the beach. Photo: Marco Verch
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‘Hope is a thing with feathers.’
‘How diminished our world would be without birds,
those dinosaurs with feathers and songsmiths with wings.’
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Hope is the thing with feathers
'Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.'- Emily Dickinson
‘We read so much into birds. The canary down the mine whose death warns miners of gas and the dove with a green twig that tells Noah the flood is receding feed into a feeling that birds are sign-bearers, omens, the gods’ messengers. Across history, across cultures, birds are also an image of escape. “Oh, for the wings of a dove,” says King David, so he could fly to the wilderness and be at rest.