🎙️ This spoken-word video is part of a longform essay first published in October 2024. It is an excerpt from Part 4 of the 5-Part Series, entitled "Who Bombs Hospitals and Inherits the Earth?" (quote by Fady Joudah).
Part 4 is called “Beyond Genocide into a New World", and this is a small excerpt.
The full essay is HERE
TEXT:
We are One, and what befalls one, befalls us all.
This isn’t poetic idealism: it’s a truth embedded in the structure of the universe. From the tiniest subatomic particle to the vast intelligence of the cosmos, everything is connected.
Gaza is not “over there.” Gaza is here, inside the Web of Life we all share. And what’s being done to Gaza is being done to all of us: our souls, our futures, our children, our Earth.
As Joanna Macy warned, the greatest danger isn’t nuclear war or climate collapse. It’s the deadening of our hearts and minds.
We shut down because we think we can’t bear it, but that is a lie sold to us by those who profit from our paralysis.
To feel fully is not weakness: it is the beginning of wisdom. To grieve is to remember our shared humanity. To rage is to declare that something sacred is being violated.
When we turn away, we stay split. When we feel and face, we start to heal. We reweave the fabric.
The path forward is one of courage, compassion and interconnection. Not escaping, but arriving ….right here, in the middle of the mess and the miracle.
We are Consciousness embodied, and this Earth is not a mistake, not a prison, not a test, not a fallen planet. It is holy
ground.
And so, the turning begins when we re-sacralize life itself. When we find our voice in the rubble and rise together. When we disrupt the machinery of death with reverence for the living, and we operate from sacred interruption of what desecrates.
And from that disruption, we begin to remember how to walk again: listening, in communion. Because this is not just a crisis of politics: it is a crisis of the Soul, it is a crisis of relationship and relationality.
The Earth is not our resource. She is our elder.
The Web of Life is not a metaphor.: it is s body, breath, blood and home.
This is not the end: this is the beginning of a New World, born not in denial, but in devotion, and it starts with knowing:
Every child in Gaza is me. Every mother and father is me.
Every house is my heart. Every flower is my eye.
Every crater is my wound. (as excerpted / adapted from the great, award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha with gratitude. )
We are One, and what befalls one, befalls us all. And what lifts one, lifts the All.
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