Illustration by Spirit Drawer
Guest essay by Julia Denos
Peace is not just for the human-centered “mindfulness and meditation space.” It is a basic birthright experience which is owed to all bodies. Especially the ones who have been born into domestication via systems of exploitation, and are, therefore, *most* vulnerable, and trust us to provide protection, and care.
Can we as humans truly be “peaceful” while exploiting and robbing the peace of another?
May we do our best to lay down and release systems and mindsets based in scarcity and separation, in favor of a whole Peace, rooted in choosing unity-of-being, choosing abundance for all.
Wherever we can, may we do our best to uphold and respect the dignity and autonomy of the animal-kin body, not solely as producer-body, but as fellow soul in their own body.
May we do our best, wherever we can, to uphold and respect the dignity and autonomy of the animal-kin body, not solely as producer-body, but as fellow soul in their own body.
Peace and love for animals, the way of the heart
We are at the very, very, very beginning of remembering this consciousness within ourselves. Our eyes are opening. We are starting to see this as the root to all related Liberations. It is the first key to true and real and abundant Peace that is born from Unification of Our Sacred Body.
Unlocking a new world. Our child self remembers this original way, the way of the heart. Of mercy. Of imagining a new way. Of abundance. It is because our child-self can see the Self in the eyes of the hooved and winged and horned ones.
Can we become as little children?
Peace.
(c) 2021 Julia Clare, artist and children’s book illustrator
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