Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
Julia Butterfly HillRead
It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.
Interpretation
Our true worth lies in the impact we have on others, not in our financial possessions.
In this quote, Julia Butterfly Hill emphasizes that the significance of an individual's life is determined by the contributions they make to the world and the lasting legacies they create, rather than their material wealth or financial success. It portrays a shift in focus from accumulation to meaningful impact, suggesting that the way we touch others' lives defines our true value.
In practice
This quote would be perfect to share during a graduation speech to inspire young graduates about their future.
Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
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