A Planetary Smile
When you put a thing in order, and give it a name, and you
are all in accord, it becomes.
From the Navajo, Masked Gods, Waters, 1950
Suggestions and Possibilities
It seems that a global consciousness, like any of us
individually, might profit from some good feeling. Most of
us know how powerful a smile can be. Walking down the
street, we meet someone who is smiling and the natural
inclination is to smile back. Let us extend this delightful
experience to the
simple and elegant metaphor of a "Planetary Smile". It is
vision that
can work for any group organizing to meditate or pray for
peace and for the earth. An intent to image, create, and be
instrumental in
a Planetary Smile symbolizes our potential for conscious evolution toward
universal humanity.
What would it be like to gradually recruit pretty much every
person on the planet to join in a planet-wide smile? I can
imagine the Earth herself would feel that, and it is easy to
imagine that we all might be changed just a little, for the
better, by such a shared experience. What is amazing to
consider is that we can aspire to accomplish the
organization and inspiration to do such a thing.
Peace starts with a smile.
-- Mother Teresa
SEEDING A SMILE
A smile is like a plant
that is seeded in the heart,
love and joy grow it up
and it blossoms in the face.
For the happiness to grow,
seed a smile every day,
share your love with those around
and more smiles you will collect.
Let's all bring a smile
to light up our mother Earth.
Let's set up an inner garden,
smiling flowers everywhere!
-- Silvia MartÃnez, 5 January 2006
Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all
the attendant vows.
-- Anonymous
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to
mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the
conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and
prestige that the warrior does today.
-- John F. Kennedy
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies
When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of
power, we will have peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix
Our story is a birth. It is the birth of humankind as one
body. . . We are one body, born into this universe.
. . .
It was a planetary smile - like the smile of a new born
baby. . . . Now for the first time, we were seeing it
together. Ecstatic joy rippled through the planetary body -
and through me as one of its billions of members.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Framing the Idea
Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests that there will come a time
when "... an uncontrollable joy will
ripple through the thinking layer of the earth. The
co-creative systems, which are lying psychologically dormant
in humanity will be activated. From within, all sensitive
persons will feel the joy of the force, flooding their
systems with love and attraction...as this joy flashes
through the nervous systems of the most sensitive peoples on
earth, it will create a psycho magnetic field of empathy,
which will align the next wave of people in synchrony,
everywhere on Earth. This massive, sudden empathic alignment
will cause a shift in the consciousness of Earth"
For a longer exposition of this idea, check out
A
message of hope.
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