And without her nothing would be. These scars are the result of what happens in life- shaping the way we continue to relate to our mothers and fathers. Can the actions of our lives begin to carry a new respect and reverence for our lives-and for all life. Indeed, all life has a mother and is mother to something. Nothing and nobody deserves to be.
Existence is a gift.
This is the correct view of our place in the world. The world has given birth to us, and we have a debt to pay for our existence. Meanwhile, the universe is a vast web of interdependence-a celestial harmony of creative and evolutionary cycles with planets, suns, galaxies all maintaining each other according to laws and within scales utterly unfathomable to our puny minds. Nonetheless, humanity has a role to play in this elaborate system. We have the role of caretaker for life on earth.