I’m reading this book by Kabir Jaffe and Ritama Davidson on a friend’s recommendation. This quote leaped out at me today:
…in a sense, I am working on the one square meter of the planet that happens to be in the location where ‘I’ am now standing, just as you are working on your square meter of the planet. And with millions of people working on their square meter, we are changing millions of kilometers. Each one of us is contributing in tremendous ways to the evolving life of the planet, and the emergence of the New. And really, in a very short period of time we are changing thousands of years of vibratory structure.
The authors are speaking specifically of energy work here, of evolving our individual consciousness, but I think this quote applies to the physical world as well. What we do in our square meters makes a difference, in the physical and energetic world and in the people around us. Even if it feels like a tiny positive action, it ripples outward.
I’m taking vitamins and drinking water. I’m reading this Marianne Williamson quote daily. I’m releasing everything item in my house that I don’t need anymore. I’m talking to my neighbors. I’m breathing.
What are you doing in your square meter to contribute to human evolution? Remember, no action is too small to claim as your own.
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Beauty in a Wicked World is a weekly column by Jennifer Gandin Le. It appears on Wednesdays.
Tags: activism, change the world, evolution, my square meter, our square meters
Nice quote! I think one of the top ten realizations in life is our inter connectedness. Everything I do matters in another’s life, someone on the other side of the planet. It’s a relatively new understanding for someone that is relatively old!
Props to you for “getting it”(and thus having more time to do something with it) at such a young age.
aj
I’m breathing, trusting the process, being kind, finding joy, having faith in the renewal of friendships.
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Thanks JAS! I’m grateful for all the people in my life who’ve shared this lesson with me so early in my life. What a pleasure and a blessing to go through life feeling connected to a larger life force. I think this is what faith is about — not only faith in a God, but faith in the sacred connection amongst us all.
And Courtney, thanks for giving us some of the highlights of your square meter. Your light glows brightly, all the way from New York to Texas!
What an interesting way to break change down into more manageable pieces. We’re so often worried about what’s going on elsewhere and everywhere, do we even know that we have a square meter?