“We have lived our lives by the assumption,” Wendell Berry writes, “that what was good for us would be good for the world.”

When, in fact, the opposite is true. As we do unto others, are we not also being of service to self? How could we have assumed such a centralized view?

From this slivered speck of an aperture we pretend to know the world; each aspect guided by a facet of our experience – a modest glimpse, by comparison. Ultimately shaded by the boundaries of our view, and the limits of our capacity to ‘see’.

“We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption,” he writes, “that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

Is this a shift in our paradigm, or rather a willingness to expand our perspective?

In peace…

Namaste ❤️