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The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
Have you ever read a book that made you grief its absence? that you really did not want it to be finished? Well this was my absolutely favorite book so far.
It made me feel that the only thing I wanted to do was chilling and entering Madrone and Bird world!
Set in the USA in 2048, this book is the most hopeful and meaningful book I have read so far. It changed my way of seeing what the world feels like when you apply non-violence, benevolence and compassion. It is a story that resonated with the way in which I see the the world developing and the human spirit evolving.
The book starts with the Declaration of the Four Sacred Things, that I share here with you:
The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standard by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance; only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.
To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.
It made me feel that the only thing I wanted to do was chilling and entering Madrone and Bird world!
Set in the USA in 2048, this book is the most hopeful and meaningful book I have read so far. It changed my way of seeing what the world feels like when you apply non-violence, benevolence and compassion. It is a story that resonated with the way in which I see the the world developing and the human spirit evolving.
The book starts with the Declaration of the Four Sacred Things, that I share here with you:
The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standard by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance; only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.
To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.