Mitakuye Oyasin
Mitakuye Oyasin:
This is a Lakota phrase that means "All are my Relations" and acknowledges that all beings past and present are joined and are inexorably part of each other. Of one hurts, we all hurt. If one is in joy, we are all in joy.
Romans 12:5
...We who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
John Donne
...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...
What will it take for us to understand our inter-relatedness?
This is a Lakota phrase that means "All are my Relations" and acknowledges that all beings past and present are joined and are inexorably part of each other. Of one hurts, we all hurt. If one is in joy, we are all in joy.
Romans 12:5
...We who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
John Donne
...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...
What will it take for us to understand our inter-relatedness?
posted by Mata H at Saturday, April 01, 2006
2 Comments:
The filters which have colored our lives have allowed us not to see one another as the same, when we truly are. Being human is being human... it's only our perceptions which make us unable to really see our brothers and sisters. Wonderful thoughts Mata...
What will it take for us to realise our interconnectedness?
A really, really, really big dinner table.
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