AWAKENING ACCOUNTABILITY
There can be no reasonable judgement deserved
for ignorance nor indifference,
while we are yet asleep,
However, as awakening increases,
awareness increases,
therefore, accountability increases.
As you do as you will …
consciously choose to do no harm.
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For Nonhuman and Human Animals,
For The Planet,
For Life,
As awareness increases,
increasingly choose,
non-violent, compassionate action
as a priority.
Choose to do No Harm.
~ Gerean Pflug for “The Animal Spirits”
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BOUND TO SUFFERING
Empathy
dictates that we,
at the very least,
show the reverence of imagining ourselves
in the place of another.
Compassion
dictates that we feel WITH them.
Mercy
dictates that we take action
to protect other sentient living beings from suffering.
Who is willing to continue to look the other way?
What you allow, will continue.
In empathy, compassion and mercy,
take action.
~ Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits
Pigs at Tona Toraja Market in Indonesia. They are mercilessly bound to bamboo poles while still alive, many of them injured. They are refused water or food and left to suffer until a human purchases them for slaughter. Is this mercy? Is this grace? Is this compassion?
“I see you
You are not alone
We are in this together
You are loved
The revolution of love is hereand all is well.
soLet there be LIGHT”
Photographer: Gerean Pflug
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THE FROZEN ANIMATION OF PEACE
While WE are
collectively
awakening
thawing
from individual winters
yet unable to recognize
all truth
WE are offered the
opportunity to
choose
peaceful co-existence
one-with-another
illustrated by
peaceful action
from where WE stand.
Thaw. Consider. Animate.
Awaken. Choose. Act.
In the LIGHT
Influence the melting
of hearts
of others.
Be the Peace
you wish to experience.
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~ Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits
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We know that living beings are suffering all across the planet today. Many of us are overwhelmed by the monumental, worldwide challenges that stand between our individual selves and those desperate to be rescued. None of us can single-handedly rescue the suffering masses of living beings, but this does not prohibit us from taking action. We don’t have to say, “There’s nothing I can do.” There are living beings in our backyards and in our communities who need our help today. Any and every compassionate action taken with intention, makes a difference . . . one-life-at-a-time.
The following adaptation from “The Star Thrower” by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977), illustrates this beautifully.
Many Blessings to those of you who are continually aware that every life matters.
~Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits
THE STARFISH STORY
adapted from The Star Thrower
by Loren Eiseley, (1907 – 1977)
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, so he walked faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects and throwing them into the ocean.
He came closer still and called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish into the ocean.”
“I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?” asked the somewhat startled wise man.
To this the young man replied, “The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them in, they’ll die.”
Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, “But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!”
As if he hadn’t heard, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
THE ANIMAL SPIRITS 