You may not believe this.

But here it is.  YOU are a very important part of this Universe.  
I know I have said this before, but a lot of people before me… who are a lot smarter than I… have been saying the same thing.

Sometimes, this is hard for me to believe, or perhaps… difficult to comprehend. Sometimes, I consider all the 7.15 billion people in the world, and I begin to feel very small.

Yet, many people subscribe to the idea that each one of us… YOU, ME, WE…. are significant in this existence.  This Universe.

There is a great paper written by a guy name Charles Eisenstein.  He talks about the Story of Separation vs. the New Intention.  This New Story is one of Interbeing; meaning that we are all basically in this together… this big thing we call life.

This study has many Principles and Levels to it.   But essentially it is this.  Our very being is connected with all beings.  Our very existence is relational.  Because of that, WHAT we do to one another, we also do to ourselves.  Each one of our acts, is significant to the overall effect on the cosmos.

You know, we also, each one of us, have a unique and necessary gift to offer the world.  I believe a big part of our purpose in  life is to express our gifts.  We truly all are connected… in our humanness.  In our spirituality, recognized or not.

If you still don’t believe it, think about things in scientific terms.  The interconnected and interdependent nature of things is the heart of ecology.  The big farm pond is dependent on the fish, the frogs, the insects, the rocks, the plants, each little part of the water…. and they… all dependent on each other and the pond.

That is us.  The fish.  Except, I want to be the frogs.

But back to it….

So our existence is not a distinct and separable phenomenon. Genuine compassion, should be easy for us.  Theoretically.  You see… again….. our actions effect everything, including ourselves.

The 19th-century conservationist John Muir sought out the VERY same principle: ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.’

For ecologists, it is the fundamental rule.  For us too.  Our spirituality, our being, our heart….. whether you call it connectedness, inseparability or, equal association…. there we are.

We may feel like we stand alone, as a singular person.  But in fact we stand together.  Like drops of water in the pond.  Every ripple, moves to the next… and back again.

Be kind today.  

It helps the world.  It is good for the universe.

We are all hitched together, after all.