Ignorance | Sister True Dedication

I think we don't love the Earth enough,

and we don't have
enough respect for the Earth.

And maybe we don't understand
the Earth enough,

so we allow our greed, and our desire,
and our craving,

and our ambition,
to push us to consume the Earth,

to destroy the Earth.

We can't see that we are the Earth,

and that when we're destroying the Earth,
we are destroying ourselves.

We think we need more industrialization,
more development, more growth,

more cars,

a higher standard of living.

But in the process we are destroying
the foundation of our living,

which is the Earth.

So it's somehow a kind of blindness,
a kind of ignorance,

in a spiritual sense.

And what we do to the Earth,
we're doing to ourselves.

But many of us can't even see
what we are doing to the Earth.

We live disconnected from the Earth,
live in cities,

consumed with the challenges
of our own personal life,

and development, and relationships.

And we can't feel the Earth around us,
and we can't hear her suffering.

And we can't see the direct connection
between the way we are living our life

and the way we are destroying our planet.