Humbleness is the seed

I found the work of a fine man in Wales who posted this quote in his blog Ecosapiens, Natural Intelligence for Bussiness, from George Bernard Shaw: ">This is the true joy in life...being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature rather than a selfish little clod of grievances and ailments complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy...I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do it for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Its a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and want to make it burn more brightly before handing it on to future generations".



We will evolve into Ecosapiens consciously, as a result of our free will (because we are humans) as well as naturally, since the earth is responding in many many ways to our industrial obsession and she is the one with the final say in all of this. Conscious evolution means we have to create a new belief system that little by little will take us to the next stage because we want to survive, and we consciously open ourselves to receiving the information we need in order to evolve. Understanding ourselves as forces of nature and building our values around this premise seems like a very powerful way of living life.

At the moment, the general state of our industrial society is that we are just vessels to be filled up with stuff rather than forces of anything. People treat people as commodities, labor force, and disposable material. But ecosapiens already lives inside us and it is waiting for us to break the walls we have created to survive since we began to civilize ourselves. We are vulnerable little beings that could easily die from drastic temperature changes, illness, starvation. We are deeply fearful of dying like any other animal and we have learned to sustain a sense of security by contributing to the formation of the current system -indirectly through our ancestors, building the walls, the towers, the grids, the circuits, the coffins.

We have plenty of reasons to justify working endless hours for whoever has the power to make us work. Instead of consciously working together to survive, we grow to see each other as competition for a position in society and our tribal roots are broken. The people and other species are just obstacles we have to overcome or sources of what we want. We forget that our species is a strand in the Web of Life and we become insatiable, unhappy, a selfish little clod of grievances and ailments complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy..

Generations go by and even the most educated and traveled ones have no idea what their purpose is in life. We have lost touch with ourselves. Until now when we open our eyes and our pores and our hearts and there is the big mama waiting for us to come back and be ourselves again so leaves may grow from our limbs and birds may nest on our messy hair, and our ears may hear the message of silent snow in a full moon night.

We learn to trust our mother and we realize that we have now what we need to survive. The understanding of who we are has left us knowing that we are both t-i-n-y and powerful, and in our search, we have developed the tools we need to rebuild our society. We can become humans again. In fact we are doing it. The light radiates stronger and stronger. The darkness is quite strong but life itself assures me that by writing this I am radiating even more light with my little light and it is multiplying faster and faster.

I trust our mother. I give thanks every day once at least, at every meal is ideal. At the sight of something beautiful too. I give thanks and then do something better than I did it yesterday. I make more art, more time to play with my daughter, work less if that's what's going to bring some lightness to my tired back. We are not perfect. In fact, we are so screwed-up with so many bad habits! We get lost and forget to stay in the present moment all the time. We are materialistic, escapists, addicted, selfish, immature. And we forget to not

try to figure it out all the time

The medicine? I talk to the big mama. I loose myself in the fast passing of the clouds over my head, or the feeling of the air going in and out of my lungs, or the amazing proportions of my child's body, or the smell of lavender in a bottle...I smile... a humble act of simplicity is enough to radiate more light for the ecosapiens seed to grow in my heart...little by little...