I look at this year’s fields.
Parched soil.
Rivers and lakes running low.
Wildfires.
Nature becoming increasingly extreme.
And I look at people.
Mentally burned out.
Physically exhausted.
Their souls are thirsty.
A strange parallel.
The Earth is drying out, and so are we.
Are we sure the two have nothing to do with each other?
For centuries, the Earth was not simply a raw material. People knew they lived from it. They observed it, cared for it, adapted to it, and they also knew they were not the masters of everything.
And the same was true of the spirit.
People knew that their existence was more than what could be owned, competed for, proven, or turned into money.
Today, both have found a strange place in our system of values. What can we get out of them...
The land is valuable if it produces.
A person is valuable if they perform.
Time is valuable if we use it “wisely.”
Knowledge is valuable if it brings profit.
And the spirit? We even question its existence, unless it can be sold...
What are we supposed to do with something like that in a world that mainly knows how to value what has a price?
How much is the source of life worth?
How do we put a price on that from which every other value can exist in the first place?
And what truly nourishes us?
Because our bodies still live from the Earth.
There is something within us that hungers in the same way when we cut it off from what nourishes it. What have we become disconnected from? What are we denying? What are we longing for?
It is not simply that people are tired. It is that while we are able to provide ourselves with more and more things, we know less and less about what nourishes life itself within us.
So much is drying out around us and within us at the same time because we have forgotten:
Life is not only a resource. It is a source.
We can exhaust the Earth.
We can exhaust ourselves too.
What if these are not two separate stories?
Perhaps spirit and matter are two faces of the same existence.
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