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From the Fringe

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Travel is certainly one way we can remove ourselves from our regular circle and the group mindset. Every group has one. This has been easy for me to see when traveling to different countries, and the differences in mindset between cultures and communities can be quite startling.

Do you objectively stand outside of your particular community and observe how often everyone adopts the same thought patterns? Why do we human beings have a propensity to do this?

There may be many answers to this, but a couple that come to mind immediately are “to feel safe” and “to feel validated”. How to break out of these needs? It’s an important question, because this need to feel part of the whole at any cost can lead us down the path of sometimes making choices that go against our own inner wisdom.

Susan L Hart | HartInspirations.com

Precious

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Families dissolve,
society dismantled.
The elephants weep.

I have much more to say about elephants, and how humans can learn from them. In fact, we can learn from all of nature. But that’s for another day.

I’ve been working all week on a compilation of the best from my Hart Haiku collection. Hart Haiku was my first blog site, and I posted there between May 2019 and August 2020. Each haiku was accompanied by expanded commentary in the posts.

That writing was important, because the haikus revealed to me what I most wanted to say. As it happened, it fell into three categories: Nature, humanity (including society), and self-fulfillment. That blog was therefore an important springboard for my writing moving forward. It’s also makes for an interesting collection, because I made special photo art cards to display the haikus. The ebook contains what I consider to be the 100 best.

Anyway, watch for the announcement this coming week when I get it listed in my store. Perhaps you’d like to pick up a copy. 🙂

Have a beautiful weekend. Please treasure your family.

Susan L Hart | HartInspirations.com

Creator, beware!

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When our Creator
gave us power to create,
what was the intent?

We are playing a
random game of chaos,
with no plan at all.

The mad scientists
concoct what they call progress –
Whose evolution?

Our human future
threatened by robotics, with
what repercussions?

Creativity
begs responsibility
to humanity –

How do we manage
an invention that could mean
our own extinction?

© Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com

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It’s the Love

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The next quote by Carl Sagan brings the first one into poignant focus:

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”

This second quote by Carl Sagan brings the first one into poignant focus. Think about it, has the Earth ever been without conflict between one faction and another? This jewel of a planet is a prize, but to whom? Do we honestly think it is merely humans that want possession of it? Or is there a much bigger story unfolding than we imagine? Is full possession of human beings also the ultimate prize for some of the power hungry?

When you think of human, do you think humans are capable of the sort of cruelty that you see before your very eyes? What human wakes up in the morning thinking, “Gee, I think it would be a really great idea to bomb people in another country today”? No, we’re not. We’re thinking about our work, our families, how to build a life within all of this madness. We love. And there’s the crucial difference. We love.

It’s our love for our families, our love of life that keeps us sane and going. But will love sustain us through all of this forever? I suppose in the higher realms, yes. But what about here on Earth, right now? While madmen are threatening each other with atomic bombs, and building robots that they hope will overtake human civilization, where are we in the equation? To those “inhumans”, we are mere cannon fodder in the pursuit of their domination.

Carl Sagan was right. We are too caught up in the minutiae of our lives, and not paying attention to the bigger drama unfolding before us. Yes, I think our love has the power to save us, but not in some fairy tale, Pollyanna way. Spiritual warriors love, yes, but they are also prepared to defend that which they love, with eyes wide open.

There is a very good word, it’s a very short and powerful one, but much underused. That word is “No”.

Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com

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A World of Questions

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Science is logic based in fact, and scientists (such as Albert Einstein in the quote) question what has come before. In order to make groundbreaking advancements, a new idea is the basis for a hypothesis, which then must proven via usually extensive experimentation.

Intuitive people also question. Based on their gut feelings – “something doesn’t feel right here” – they watch for the spaces and incongruities (the holes, as it were) in what is being presented as absolute truth. They also do their own research instead of blindly accepting what is being put in front of them. This is called having discernment and using critical thinking.

We are living in times where increasingly we’re being told that we should not question. But not questioning will keep us in a stagnant state, and possibly also an ignorant one. If it really is the truth, it will stand the test of questioning, and if it’s not the truth, ultimately it will not.

So my question is, why aren’t more people questioning being told they should not question?

There’s still time today to celebrate the arrival of May flowers (yesterday’s post) with a free copy of my ebook Our Beautiful Earth. It’s not normally free, so please take advantage of the opportunity today. Download it here.

Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com