It is not enough to stop those ways of living that cause harm to our planet, we need to find the living ways to develop a new world in harmony: Human, Planet and Purpose - together.

 

The outer world shows how much harm our unconscious actions have wrought, the inner life is where real change takes place where we can SEE and register a different future.

 

From inside ourselves, the outer world is the field of expression of the inner that, once aligned to purpose, becomes a new relationship with all around us. WE can no longer act one way and talk as if we ‘meant’ to be kind or compassionate - what is - is.

 

All projects in living (living itself is the first project, the first sanctuary as we say), are an integral joining of oneself with the world in the presence of and in the flow form the cause of life itself.

 

To just act upon the world by self authorised right is the hall mark of ignorance of what has brought us to the edge of ‘the collapse of humanity’.

 

At the very least one needs to ask oneself if there is a permission to act in this or that way - and that question belongs with a quite different set of sensitivities and consciousness than we employ when we just assert ourselves.

 

Richard’s own website (RichardBowell.org)

has an account of more than 40 years of projects from opening centres of integral learning to ecological building projects to most recently the establishment of a sanctuary for (little) people, the planet and the harmony of life with his wife Joan, that is now a Netflix film viewed by more than 60 million people.