Choices and decisions

To the Editor:

“The rational mind is a faithful servant, and the intuitive mind a sacred gift. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” - Albert Einstein

Intuition is a felt sense — we know when someone is telling the truth, we feel it. We also know when something is inherently “right” in terms of human values and social ethics, not an opinion or ungrounded assumption. And we are endowed with our gut instincts and the true intelligence of our hearts, not only the knowledge and deductive reasoning of our intellects. But with the often overwhelming pace of energy and information bombarding us every day, we can get caught in our heads and lose the felt sense of these other modes of perceiving, understanding and communication. It’s time to re-engage these gifts and apply them to the choices and decisions we make every day, both locally and globally.

We are each one of us (7-billionplus) different, yet we are more alike than different. We all have Earth literally inside us (we’re made of the elements and atmosphere of Earth), and we all are dependent for life on this Earth we share. We are also dependent on each other, interdependent in fact; so we are more connected than we are separate. With this basic understanding we can heal the world, if we choose and decide to.

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Anonymous

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