Love one another. Simple enough. Not really. Buried in those
three words are openness, empathy, compassion and even suffering. It’s not
easy.
In our contemporary world, we realize that we are
inextricably connected in all kinds of ways to one another and to all of
nature. So beyond humanity, we must love the coral reef, love the endangered
species, love the air and the water.
We must cultivate a love that makes us willing to sacrifice
as we need to, to have empathy with the plight of all living things and to be
open to new ways in which science reveals this connected world to us.
This is not easy. I’m not yet good at it. But at least I’ve
taken the first step of awareness.
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