Who is our neighbor: the Samaritan? the outcast? the enemy? Yes, yes, of course. But it is also the whale, the dolphin, and the rain forest. Our neighbor is the entire community of life, the entire universe. We must love it all as ourselves.

Brian Patrick in Earthspirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Unity by Michael Dowd

 

To Practice This Thought:
Have you expanded the circle of your love over the past year? Where and how could you do this?

 

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