time wormhole thoughts If one has the power to move mountains one has to take into effect the consequence of such moves. What may look like a trivial landscape project in one's backyard ends up fucking up years of delicate ecosystems not yet understood. Our readiness to share the world with other people does show up in our willingness to let the mountain be where it is. It is in that willingness not to fuck with it knowing that we do have the power to blow it up that we first begin to see freedoms to express humanity in ourselves and let others breath easier and be available to share life with us.

As a child I was told that if you find something of value that does not belong to you then you must find the owner and return it because it is of greater value to return value back than to appropriate it for yourself. For many years I thought this was bullshit but I've always acted on that lesson from childhood honoring a tradition of giving up on opportunity to profit from other people's mistakes and misfortunes.

What does it take for a human being to walk away from the opportunity to steal? Perhaps to know that all of us are born thieves and opportunists. Yes, but what does it take to walk away?

  ¶ 7:50 AM