Spirit Matters

We exist in extremis. Our circumstances are extreme—political calamity, global pandemic, environmental deterioration—and our interactions have followed suit. When every interaction is polarized, how do we begin to heal and find common ground?

Our political parties are fractious and deeply divisive, each claiming it knows what is truly moral, proper for equal rights and best for creating jobs. Yet each refuses to collaborate with the others – a clear sign no one of them actually has the good of all as its agenda.

Our religious leaders each proclaim beautiful ideas of love for everyone, yet, love for the other religions’ ideas is thin.

Our business leaders all urge freedom of innovation as the solution for jobs for everyone, for a world where all will benefit in material goods, yet, in reality the leaders at the top reap enormous profits for themselves, while the vast majority in the organization get crumbs, and society is left to itself to figure out how everyone might get a share of the pie.

What we need, what needs to wrestle its way into our thinking, feeling and acting, is our commitment to a many-sided harmonious reality where we always have the good of all in mind – where we refuse to separate our ideals from our politics from our business concerns.  We can chart a new way forward by choosing a loving harmonious reality that deals with the complexity at hand, creating what is actually possible and supporting ideals that live on the earth.  Each one of us must choose this commitment to the good of all, then seek others who have also chosen this route. Together, we’ll have enough power to challenge the bastions of privilege in the separate fragmented domains of religion, politics and business, where those are gathered who work toward only their own good, at others’ expense. Let's find our way!