Ovi Magazine Issue #27: Spirituality Published: 2015-05-02

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We live in a world lacking gener It’s so easy to do something about it.

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ne of the interesting things of live, is that from the moment of birth, every form of life wants something, be it a plant, animal, or human infant. As we grow, we want the latest clothes, the latest technological mod-cons, the best food, and love and affection from others. The latest generation wants a ‘pinup’ partner, yet still wants their parents to support them. We have learnt how to take everything we can get out of life in proportions never seen before. Today our minds are full of wants. This dominates us, as we always think about what we feel we need and can’t live without. It’s like a continual hunger that we can never satisfy. We have forgotten giving. We have forgotten about others. We consume, we take timber from the earth and don’t replace it, we take the fish from the seas until they have become scarce, and we have polluted the earth to the point that the balance of sustainability maybe tipping. If we try and quantify this, our society takes everything and only giving back 1-5%. There is a great deficit which is destroying not only our sense of humanity but the earth as well.


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