Oneness

Introduction
As you read these words, billions of living beings are
suffering. Billions of people are living in poverty, starving
from a lack of food, with no clean water to drink, and no
way of maintaining their health, or of living a truly happy
and fulfilling life.
Billions of animals are being tortured and abused in
slaughterhouses, living their short lives in constant pain
and fear, all so that humans can continue to use them for
pleasure and profit.
Billions of trees are cut down every year, destroying the
ecosystems that depend on them, and depleting the oxygen
that we breathe, just so we can harvest their wood and use
the land where they once stood, when there are plenty of
other more sustainable options available.
Billions of people are suffering emotionally, unable to
cope with their treatment from an entire society of people
lacking in love and genuine compassion for one another.
War, famine, pollution, destruction, violence,
oppression, racial injustice, torture, murder, genocide,
deception, slavery—how can humanity allow such terrible
things to happen? How can we be aware of the suffering
that is happening on this planet, and not do anything at all
to try to change it?
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