I saw this piece today in Nippun Mehta's Innernet Weekly newsletter. The Whidbey Institute's hospitality, as evidenced by the amazing experience of dining here, resonates with deep truths that are re-emerging.Perhaps our greatest resource for peace is in an awareness that we enrich ourselves when we share our possessions with others. We discover peace when we learn to esteem those goods whereby we benefit ourselves in proportion as we give them to others. The very structure and functioning of the universe and of the planet Earth reveal an indescribable diversity bound in an all-embracing unity. The heavens themselves are curved over the Earth in an encompassing embrace.
Here I would recall the experience of Henry David Thoreau, an American naturalist the
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