“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.
But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers,
storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in
their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the
fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have
little to do with success as we have defined it.” --David Orr, Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a
Postmodern World
And there you are.
After thousands of years, I discover you, once more,
Akmenaten
only now, even though your warrior passion is just as ferocious
as it once was and your royal stature remains
you've forgotten
the beautiful tune of your native heart song.
Today, your warble is distinct, yet marred -
an erratic rhythm it forcefully blares,
"Do not bee content."
Once upon a time you opened up your mouth and
you sang beauty across a land and a time
when greed dotted a burgeoning landscape
when disease was born and dysfunction became commonplace.
Then, you boldly stood and proclaimed a renewed way
in which the sun was the true Creator
ushering in a new era.
Embodying compassion
you reminded us of our collective ONEness
even as we are each born to make manifest different destinies.
Thousands of years later, and you have risen once more
only now the song you sing isn't beauty-full, nor is it in the way of the Tao.
You have forgotten that - at your core and deep in your Soul -
is a man of justice, a peaceful warrior who doesn't just chase the hunt simply for the taking.
After all these years, I find you,
but you cannot see me
for you are blinded by illusion.
Our alignment may bee fortuitous, yes,
but we can only move mountains and embody the dream we all dream
by sharing values and an Earth-based ethos that maintains the sacredness of All LIFE.
My dearest sleeping beauty, I await the day when you finally AWAKE
and truly rise from your centuries-long deep slumber.
"We do not need the big cars, or houses, or the thousand pairs of shoes to be regarded as successful. We have realized that beautiful experiences and stronger connections define us as successful. We realize that a life filled with traditional tenets of success, like money, power, fame, stuff, is empty. It reeks of discontentment. It stutters and stammers its way to depression and anxiety.
Why are we doing the things we
are doing? It’s hard to tell the non-minimalists
in our lives that we can’t do certain things - because it isn’t something we
are interested in anymore - especially when it may mean losing acquaintances,
friendships, and even family relations. For we have realized what is
important and what isn’t. We are moving towards living the life we are
meant to be living on this planet. It doesn’t allow for faltering or
mistakes. It is clear-cut and it marks a clearly marked path towards
peace and contentment. The decision is yours. You have to choose between love and life.
Between contentment and constant dissatisfaction with every aspect of
your life. Between stuff and minimalism." --from Boom and Thenix
