The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

chapter fourteen
JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
“First, live a compassionate life. Then you will know.”
—Buddha
“By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation
with the world.”
—Albert Schweitzer
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who
is striking at the roots.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The Jeweled Web of Journeys
How can we best contribute to our culture’s awakening and evolution
to greater intelligence, compassion, peace, and fulfillment? We each
have a unique piece of the puzzle to contribute, which emerges out of
responding to the dreams, aspirations, and yearnings in our heart that
develop through the course of our particular life journey. When we
develop a sense of the wonder and potential of our unique life, we feel
the same toward others. This emerges as respect and understanding for
them and the urge to cooperate with and support them. This is a basic
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