It's Not Your Life

As poet John Donne stated truly - "No mans an island" and just as sure the life we live is not our own. We love the thought of free will and the hardy strength of the individual and these concepts have shaped great nations and greater men. They're not entirely true concepts however. Again the life you live is not your own. Nor is mine. We don't live in a vacuum - unaffected by thoughts and actions of others and no less do our thoughts shape the world at large. We each owe a responsibility to the whole - the organism that supports life and offers opportunity to expand in growth, love and compassion. That and only that is our purpose and mission - to live life as a full expression of the whole. And the whole is less without you.

 

 

No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

John Donne