"Would it change anything if we but acknowledged our relationship to everyone"
I think our lives change when we acknowledge that we are one with everyone, or in other words, change our relationship to all others. How we relate to others is a crucial aspect of who we are. If we acknowledge our relationship to everyone, and yet, our relationships with our family are based on mistrust, anger and resentment, the acknowledgment would not do us much good. The golden rule is golden for a reason - do onto others as you would have them do onto you. The reason is, when you do onto others, you are doing onto you. If you judge others, you are bringing judgment onto yourself. When love is the basis of your relationships, you bring love into your experience. Are you seeing pink now, because I never really associated a color with love, myself... On Sep 6, 5:50 pm, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you ever thought about those to whom you are related? Of > course you have, but maybe not in this way. > We all have four grandparents, eight great grandparents, etc. > This geometric progression continues as we go back from generation to > generation until, in about 1400 AD it equals the entire population of > the human species at that time. In other words, each of us is related > to everyone else if we look back far enough. > Similarly, if we go forward, from children to grandchildren etc., > making some reasonable assumptions and using the current projections > for the future human population, our direct progeny will equal > everyone living in about 2900 AD. If we include in this calculation > brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, we will be related to > everyone living in about 2700 AD. > So at present we seem least related to friends, neighbors, and > those in our community and country. But in fact we are all related. It > is just that it seems now that we’re not. Would it change anything if > we but acknowledged our relationship to everyone, ancestors and > descendants? Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
