Life is a dance.
This whole planet is a dance.
I just have to look out the window
and watch a tree swaying in the breeze
and I start swaying in time with that tree.
Oh my goodness, and now I am going to get emotional...
but I love dancing with trees.
It's the most extraordinary thing.
The wind is the trees dance partner.
When this breeze comes up and it starts fluttering in their branches
and then then whole body can sway... it's just beautiful.
There's just so much beauty, so much connection,
so much joy that we can have,
if we just looked at things differently,
if we just weren't so self absorbed as a species.
It isn't just about us and the next thing that you can buy.
It's like we have these holes in us
that we're trying to fill up with stuff.
We feel lost, we feel alone as a species.
And we're feeling that because we systematically
set ourselves out on a journey
of separating ourselves.
But we are absolutely part and parcel of this.
I just wish everybody could feel what is there for us
because you wouldn't experience one moment of loneliness
ever again.
We have been blessed with an incredible planetary home.
There is extraordinary wisdom around us.
It's an evolved wisdom...
a wisdom that has developed over time.
We just need to listen
to those who are older and wiser and get this planet...
who have worked out how to live well and wisely
within this beautiful planetary home.
And those are the species
that have been around a lot longer than us.
So they are the trees...
they are the animals...
they are the microbes.
If we can just take the intelligence we have
and temper it with wisdom...
if we could answer every time 'yes' to this question,
'Are we creating conditions conducive to all life?'
then the world is our oyster.
There's this responsibility on the one side,
but almost a duty to live life to the full.
Because this is the only planet that has granted us
this ability to be with life on earth...
to feel that we're part of this community of life.
I sit next to a plant and I'm grateful for the oxygen it is providing me.
But I'm happy that I'm giving carbon dioxide in return.
What I'm breathing out is what you're taking in,
and what you're breathing out is what's giving me life.
And how am I helping to fit into the natural cycles?
How can we start to live in that same generous way?
Where it is generosity towards your own species,
but also very much towards a broader community of life.
I've always found it easier to love others more than myself.
That's part of our journey...
to learn to love and accept ourselves for who we are.
I think in doing that, that has also helped me
to then express more of who I am.
You know, not hiding anymore, that I am this rather daft woman
who feels rather deeply...
but that is who I am.
I think the most important thing for me is
learning to connect with everything around me.
We have the capacity for compassion...
to really embrace that, but beyond our own species.
To be able to share that level of compassion and empathy with all others,
I think is for me what my human journey is.
There is so much potential,
so much love for us to experience
beyond ourselves as individuals and as an individual species.
And I just wish that for everyone.
Let's make the most of it.
And making the most of it will mean
actually being fully part of the community of life
and learning how to actually live together
with the rest of life on earth.
It's a returning... it's a reawakening... a reconnecting.
If this was my last day, I would fill it with dance...
I would dance with life.
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