"FIRST OF ALL, ABANDON ANY NOTION that anything you humans do will ultimately destroy me. That is because I am your mother. It is impossible to kill one's mother. You may shoot her a hundred times, but alas, she has already given birth to you. She is your forever. What you are destroying is your own happiness. Your comfort, which I put so much playful effort into creating. Your peace of mind. Your joy.
There is no potion, no poison you can create, that will do anything but rearrange the pattern I have made. And, let me add, you were created in such a way that you can do this. So destruction too is part of the overall design.
The biggest problem is thinking the fate of the world rests on you. It does, and it doesn't. The 'saving' of the planet, as you humans think of it, can be done really easily. All that is required is that everyone becomes as one mind. The mind, actually, of clay, she said, and laughed. Television creates this global mind to some extent, but the programming is so bad.
Then there are the languages people have which have become a completely unnecessary division. There is no need to talk, really. It is something humans started a long time ago - I don't even remember why - and they've clung to it. Clinging to speech they've lost the ability to read one another, to feel one another, to know one another at a glance. Or with a sniff. It is entirely within human capacity to do this.
When you witness the various peace talks that occur on a daily basis somewhere on earth and you see how far everyone is from peace, and how they get no nearer the longer they talk, well, this gives an indication of the problem."
- Alice Walker -
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