Love Notes on Liberation 4
a collective heartsong emerges
Something has been shifting deeply for a while now and is emerging as a tangible collective desire for a simple, meaningful life.
I don’t want to have strings attaching my life force to corporations and billionaires that don’t care about my well-being or the planet. I don’t want to engage in consumerist and problematic traditions. I don’t want to live a superficial existence full of striving, and I know you feel it too.
Waking Up from the the Bad Dream
We start to see how capitalism has been driving our lives, the traditions steeped in consumerism, the desire to market ourselves, to commodify our talents, to resemble a facade of perfection.
One day, we wake up and see the world stripped down to what is really is—to ourselves as nature—and we want nothing more than to commune there with ourselves as we are, one.
The grip of the illusion is loosened, and our yearning for something true becomes known to us. We take stock of what really matters, we listen to our heartsong, and we find it is finally easier to let go of what is harmful.
We begin to walk in right relationship1 with ourselves, all living beings, & our precious earth as she breathes our truth into our bones.
We realize what we need to be free from. We can see the choices we have. We can see that we are ours and not theirs, and we will never give ourselves back to that beast and all its greed and violence, all its destruction.
We take our power back and we put the power into love for ourselves, for humanity, for earth.
We walk now in dignity.
We walk as one.
xo,
emily
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Right relationship is an indigenous and buddhist concept that recognizes our interconnectedness and honors living in sustainable and loving ways. Thich Nhat Hanh called this interbeing.