Opportunity to learn new ways
I live on a street normally busy with the noise of traffic coming and going. On Thursday I woke to the relative silence and peace of only the occasional vehicle passing along Somme Parade. It was markedly different from any previous experience. I didn't find it eerie. I found it rather beautiful, reminiscent of times spent in the country, where the only sounds are those of nature.
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After putting a couple of teddy bears in the windows for the kids, as many are now doing, I reflected. I believe not only in the karmic forces of this planet but, in line with those, the forces also of the natural world, both living and those that don't have life as such.
My belief is that these forces are constantly responding by trying to restore the natural harmony of all things and all life and that what we are experiencing/witnessing with Covid-19 is exactly that. Nature and other forces (e.g. global-warming related) have been trying to tell us for some time that we need to reorient our approach to restore harmony. It seems these very entities have now pretty much taken it out of our hands, nullifying many systems (many disruptive of harmony in my view) and are offering us the opportunity to act long-term on what has been required for a long time: greater humanity towards each other and greater care for other lifeforms and the planet. If we don't take advantage of that this time, I believe next time the messages will be even more forceful and, perhaps, circumstances even more dire.