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I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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N.B. On this day we also mourn the privatisation of our water which has always been the gift of love from our Mother Nature to nurture, nourish and sustain the entire web of life.
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“Water is a great teacher that shows us how to move through the world with grace, ease, determination, and humility.”
If, only if, we could be wise and learn how to be like water and accordingly live our lives like water…
I am trying to imagine what the world would be like, if those who have abused, misused and privatised water and made it a tool of profit making, exploitation, plunder, pollution, and destruction, had studied wisdom traditions from the eastern cultures, traditions such as Taoism which counsels us to live our lives like water. This, as Parker J. Palmer* has noted, does not mean “go with the flow” passivity. Taoism is all about nonviolent action. It invites us to flow quietly but persistently around the obstacles that stand between us and the common good, wearing them down as a river erodes boulders.
Here are some words from the Taoist master Lao Tzu who names a few of the virtues that come from living “the watercourse way.” They won’t make you rich or famous. But they serve the common good, make life worth living, and help keep hope alive!
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