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One might imagine I wrote this poem about a personal relationship, but no, I wrote it for humanity. And I guess “relationship” applies anyway, because aren’t we all having a relationship with each other?

It’s time to stop throwing stones of hatred, and remember the underlying love that binds us together. Or, how are we ever going to overcome the problems in the world?

Stone’s Throw Away is an excerpt from Humanity’s Lament: Poetry for Our Times

Getting Better at Gratitude

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During Masaru Emoto’s experiments with water, he discovered that water responded to “Thank You” even more strongly than the word “Love”. The water formed more beautiful ice crystals when frozen.

Gratitude is one of our highest expressions of Love. It is one of the most powerful ways we can personally transform the world. It therefore behooves us to get better at saying it more often. 🙂 A happier world is a more abundant world.

Each day is a gift, and the present moment is the only certain one. There is beauty and sacredness to be found in every single day, when we choose to live that way. It’s the small things all around us all the time that give life its true magic. Intentionally taking notice of life’s beauty makes life feel infinitely richer, and when we express gratitude for it, we also amplify our abundance. That which we focus on expands, so more comes back to us in an upward positive energy spiral of our own making.

Smile

Smiles have
this way, they
captivate and
illuminate,
they raise up
our energy
and light up
the world,
they ripple
outward and
boomerang
back to us,
they’re a gift
we give to others
and to ourselves,
so just –

Smile.

What Is Civilized?

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I agree with the quote by Edward Abbey. Many people take for granted that “moving forward in time” within our linear measurement of it, automatically implies progress and therefore becoming more civilized.

As I look around at society right now, I would argue that humanity as a collective is becoming less civilized by the minute.

We’ll do a lot better as a collective when we stop having the need to choose sides. The black and white paradigm, the ”you’re either with us or against us” attitude is holding us back from freeing ourselves from a societal system that constantly reinforces it. Nature exists in a state of cooperation, and humans could learn from this.

I am convinced that the cultures of the Indigenous peoples offer much more wisdom that would be beneficial to humanity transforming society right now. A good start is to not turn our backs on Nature, but to learn how to listen to it.

Susan L Hart / Author

Tag Archives: poetry

Message in a Bottle

Becoming Wholly One

Stone’s Throw Away

Getting Better at Gratitude