It is a body, has a spirit, is organic, and fluid to the influence of its spirit, and to whatever particle of that spirit is in me. She is not dead, but sleepeth. The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature. I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.
Humans are an integral part of the ecology of the planet.
The only lasting environmental solutions are those that take into account the dynamics of human society as well as those of natural systems. We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life. Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world.