Volunteer of the Planet
Autor: Cecilia Borelli | Publicado: 2011-06-26T15:47:00-07:00

Volunteers of the Planet

All of the movements of volunteers in the world are increasing and people are feeling a clear call to utilize their potential and time in something that they can share with others, their community and with the world.
It is evident that the needs are so vast that more and more involvement, good will and contributions are needed. Needs and gaps exist everywhere. &nbsp;There are millions of types of needs and difficulties.
These exacting times make our heart and our conscience expand, activating an internal light, a call to occupy ourselves in some form in order to achieve harmony and increase the well-being and happiness of everyone, of everything.
And in this way we are propelled to leave the cycle of individualism, tough competitiveness and the desire to accumulate privileges and power.
The other day talking with friends, one of them commented that she really wants to do volunteer work but cannot find sufficient time to dedicate herself in this way.
And so I promptly responded:You can be a volunteer of the planet!!!!To begin with, it is what every citizen of the earth should and is able to be, naturally.Volunteers of the Planet!Independent of an institution, NGO, or group: &nbsp;it is a state of being, and of feeling ready to help wherever they are, in whatever way they can, throughout their lives.
In truth, to be a volunteer of the Planet is a state of the soul, an opening of our heart and consciousness that makes us ready to help, to make our contribution, to share our knowledge and energy with others -- people, animals, plants....

I see people who stop on the street to orient someone needing help with directions, others who take a bowl of soup to their ill neighbor, others who put an extra snack in their child's backpack for the friend who doesn't have anything to eat at school, those who shelter an abandoned animal, who hug a tree so that it won't be cut down, who clean a public place where people walk by....
Someone who on a crowded bus offers to hold our heavy bag, or even gives us their seat, someone who picks up their knitting needles during their evening television show to make a jacket for a child who will be born. Small acts, smiles, words of support, an attentive and caring look at life and earth's goods, makes us pertain to a group that can grow, should grow, along with the Love that is being revealed as our greater power and path.

To be Volunteers of the Planet, Volunteers on the planet, multipliers of good will, guardians of the light that can be shared, that can irradiate confidence and joy in this complex world filled with beauty and significance, but lacking in proactive and beneficial actions.
It is a concept that can be taught in the schools along with the other subjects, transmitting to children in a precise way feelings of belonging, empathy with others and the earth, a way of creating responsibility and natural involvement with the environment and people in the community, their planetary family. Teaching the pleasure of being a permanent volunteer, to have this readiness at all times. They are two concepts: planetary volunteers and planetary family that is incorporated in a frequent practice. &nbsp;We can always be useful, if only with a thought, a smile, a cordial word.
This is how a person who spoke about their lack of time softened and realized that when she understood this meaning, she felt this state of being to be a "volunteer of the Planet," that only asked more receptivity, gratitude, and attention with life, with the present moment.
There are always infinite ways to help, to be useful, to show goodwill in any time and place.


The world is the place, where so many interlaced and interdependent lives are invited to help one another, to exercise the gift of kindness, of gentleness, of empathy, to activate love by interiorizing this concept, this choice that makes all the difference: &nbsp;to be a permanent volunteer and guardian of the goods of the earth that pertain to us all.

Texto Cecilia Borelli, tradução de Annelise Schnzinger&nbsp;