REALIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE
by Suzanne Duarte
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Realizing
the Significance
of
Our Time in History
makes
all the difference
between acting on behalf
of
the future
or
not.
To realize the significance
of our time in history
is to remind ourselves
what we're here for.
We aren't here
to perpetuate the past!
We're here to create
a different kind of future.
We're here in this time,
this lifetime,
to realize we have a choice.
We don't HAVE to believe
that "things have always
been this way,"
that human nature
is violent and greedy,
that there's nothing we can do
to change the way things are.
Who told you that, anyway?
What if it isn't true?
What if the world is waiting
for you to wake up
to far grander possibilities
than your private pleasures
and miseries?
What if the future is counting
on you
to make its potentials possible?
What if the continued existence
of millions of plants
and animals
and children
depends on your waking up
to the significance of our time?
What if the sixth great
extinction
could be stopped cold in its tracks
if we all woke up
to the aliveness of every living being?
What if all of evolution
has striven to bring humans
to this very point -
the realization that
another world is possible,
that we have a choice,
and the future depends on it?
As species lay dying,
can you look them in the eye,
and say, "Oh, well,
things have always been this way"?
Or will you open your heart
to future generations
of all beings,
because you know:
this is the Turning Point,
the Time of the Great Turning,
and you are here
for the Great Work
of birthing and caring for
a future worth living in,
a future
worth living for?
March 2002
© 2009 Suzanne Duarte