Let Us Unite and Save the World Together

LET US UNITE AND SAVE THE WORLD, TOGETHER 1 February 2015 Saving or destroying the world is a choice – a simple choice for cynics and defeatists and cowards to mock and for the brave and determined merely to do. Let us dare to recognise the constant of change. Let us dare to open our minds to it. Let us dare to be different. Let us dare to be mocked. Let us dare to guide the lost. Let us dare to fail and try again – and again and again and again. Let us know the triumph of failure and the glory of repeated failures for failure is merely the badge of attempt and determination, an achievement of note and without which we fade into nothing and die. Let us dare to smile through our tears and face and conquer our fears and look back and wonder why we let them keep us prisoners. Let us want, with united breath, to save the world, one element, one baby step, at a time and let us go ahead and do it. Let us not wait until the well is dry to learn the value of water. Let us tread lightly and with compassion on field and the hearts of foes. Let us awaken in the seed of our beings that which builds and nurtures and illuminates. Let us use our skills and talents to blend old wisdoms and modern living. Let us cherish and honour the moral code which bonds us, teaches us, protects us limits us to that which is good for all. Let us paint a wide-sky future for a diverse but united world. Let the wind and rain cleanse us of greed and replace it with the exhilaration of giving. Let us take from the earth and each other that which is freely given and only what we need, and let us return those gifts a thousandfold. Let us remember we chose our leaders and let us choose wisely those who truly lead. Let us use our complaints to find solutions. Let us clear the garbage from our minds and fill them with forest-air. Let us expose the delicious secrets of harmony and balance and savour them on our tongues with exquisite delight. Let us excite in each other a desire to protect, nurture and revere, each day at least one person, one animal, one plant, one idea, one beauty and uncover one ugliness to expose the beauty underneath. Let us look for a problem a day, to solve in the pleasure of the path to unity. Let us notice and relish the microcosmic and macrocosmic wonders of our miracle world of multiple hidden simplicities and intriguing complexities. Let our spirits grow our spirituality and harness them with power for progress. Let them overflow their limits and flood the earth with the growth and joy that our planet offers, if only we accept them, so that all beings can celebrate them together. Let us do, say and think that which is positive and effective for what purpose would any other actions, words and thoughts serve? Let us embrace our differences and use them to repair and strengthen what we cannot ourselves - and revel in our similarities in song and dance of body and mind. Let us take the effort that comes from caring and wrap it around the world in adoration. Let us take the camaraderie we know and leak it to a namaste, ubuntu world. Let us invest in the youth, the spring of our world, to blossom in their summer, and consolidate in their autumn, and pass on to earth’s progeny in their winter. Let us grow humility to drown our pride and egocentricity. Let us stimulate our intellect and explode in all, the joy of thought. Let the buck stop with us. The solution is as difficult as it is easy. Are you in?