Sacred Activism
❤️🔥Every act of service ripples across the mycelial web of all life and helps turn the tide. Pick your deepest heartbreak and pledge it.
❤️🔥 This was the advice given to me by author and spiritual teacher Andrew Harvey during a couple of phone calls I had with him last year.
❤️🔥 It is so easy to become overwhelmed with the bumper crop of problems besieging our planet and all sentient beings. And in our overwhelm, we might end up unconsciously choosing to do a lot less to turn the tide than we might like.
❤️🔥 The secret that the saints knew (Andrew told me), was that choosing one cause to throw yourself into (the one that breaks your heart the most) does, in some mysterious way, ripple across the mycelial web of life and help to turn the tide when it comes to all the humanitarian and ecological crises that currently plague us. When we serve (and create) from our own deepest heartbreak, the magic and power to influence all life beneficially is magnified.
❤️🔥 We need all hands on deck. There is no time to use excuses like, “There are so many problems, I don’t know where to begin . . . “
❤️🔥 The planet is on fire. We need the power of all broken open hearts pouring forth in love. It doesn’t matter if anyone ever knows your name or recognizes you for it. The fact that you are showing up matters infinitely.
❤️🔥 Shelter dogs are one of my deepest heartbreaks (in addition to all children who are lost and afraid in war zones, people feeling like they can’t exist as the person they are in the world with both safety and dignity, the Amazon rainforests coming down, whales and dolphins being slaughtered, and people dying alone with substandard existential, spiritual, psychological care).
❤️🔥 Choosing your deepest heartbreak and pledging it (in service, in whatever you can do) benefits your mental health. Despondency and overwhelm compound on and perpetuate each other. Doing something increases hope and overall wellbeing. And you are a part of the life web. Your wellbeing influences the wellbeing of all.
❤️🔥 Reach out via my Contact page to talk to me about small, feasible ways you can become a sacred activist for the cause that breaks your heart most, and to talk to me about how this might benefit your mental health. 🙌