Healing the Whole

"...we may feel ourselves torn between the priorities of healing ourselves ~ resolving our own inner spiritual or psychological problems ~ and attempting to cure the social and economic ills that beset our culture.  While each of us undoubtedly has much inner work to do, this attitude ...continues to view the individual as somehow separate from the rest of the world.  But if we accept that we are totally part of this living Earth, then we must recognize that isolated health is an illusion.  Healing ourselves and working to resolve the contradictions in the human-earth ecology is the same work." - Earth Prayers