How does self-cultivation serve collective well-being?

There’s a quote in a book called In Tune with the Infinite that speaks to the impact of the individual on the collective: “To the degree that we do this do we overflow, so that all who come in contact with us receive the effects of this realization on our part.” When we realize who we are, we emanate this higher truth and all those that come in contact with us receive this wisdom as inspiration and encouragement to do the same. We are all necessary for balance, harmony, and regeneration of the collective well-being while on this Earthly journey.

We have been endowed with multiple intelligences:

The primary language of the human is sensing and feeling, as we are sentient beings who experience this earthly journey through this human husk. The intellect comes in and allows us to utilize our attention and focus to begin the process of integration. However, awareness and practice alone do not beget transformation: there’s an element of surrender to a wider consciousness that is required, which comes from 2 states of realization:

1) we have no control

2) we are not separate

Getting back into relationship with our sentient nature is key:

The current state of human relations reveals a deep split from our self because of a lack of feeling: we cannot feel our self, so we cannot feel others. When we cannot feel others, we lose our compassion, connection, respect, and desire to build with one another, and if we continue in this direction, our demise as a species is visibly on the horizon. There’s a necessary acknowledgement of 2 things:

• that we are interconnected and interdependent and therefore, it is our responsibility to respect each other and the Earth we live on by reconnecting to our self via our sentient nature, reconfiguring our intellect to be collaborative and inclusive rather than dominating, and reviving and rehydrating our compassion and capacity for one another

• that we live in a grief-phobic, death-denying society that diminishes our access to a full and colorful life and prevents us from learning from the teacher of death

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