by CARI TAYLOR
Photo by Andrew Ridley on Unsplash
Life is diverse, in its wholeness.
Diversity is the Natural Universal Law that builds all of life and it holds reason and it carries moral justice.
There is unity in our diversity – as we find ourselves we find each other – and in seeking wholeness it is only through each and all that this is real.
We all seek inner peace. Yes, there’s many things we ‘seek’, but this is a universal urge. A space of harmony and balance that allows us time and space to be and become at once. Inner peace is a collective bodily expressed sigh, where nothing is asked for, needed or required and all things at once feel serene. Universally this requires equity and diversity as much as freedom to our expressions, in order to draw from us every element of being, for all things to be at peace.
To know peace – we must be at peace with all that we are – and we are each diverse in nature, spirit and becoming. We are each known even to ourselves by witnessing the diversity of everything else around us.
From this, what we seek is to build the portal that this can occur in.
We are one system. That all sentience thrives is an essential quality to maintain the system. In this, diversity is crucial to life’s continued existence. As we are enhanced by diversity so is life itself. It brings depth to our being. That we are of many forms brings depth to our existence and our potential. Equity in humanity paves the way for regard in equity in biodiversity.
It cannot be stressed enough that diversity is our continuum; it is all that we are and can become. It is limitless life revealing itself. It is every energy force known and necessary and with reason amongst us. I use this example to illustrate this … if our bookshelf and indeed our list of friends includes only the people we like to read or listen to, because they agree with us, or share like minded thoughts and beliefs, it is a very shallow library, vocabulary and knowledge base that we have. There is no depth to our knowledge to be gained without being challenged, there is no depth to our evolving without being open to all potentials. Diversity offers us the ability to open to more than we know, more than we are, and more than we can dream to be.
Diversity in our thinking, our ways of being, in our creations, in our capacity is what brings our depth to be resilient, to thrive, even to survive. Diversity is our depth!
Life is a symbiotic design – or a microcosm within a macrocosm repeated into all things – all simultaneously spiralling through its process of evolution, growth, expansion, which happens through our learning and cleansing so that we can live into our being. It is a wholistic design that continues to grow value in all things. The diversity of this is important, hence nature so brilliantly creating such an assortment of expressions in its living examples of our diverse nature self.
Diversity breeds and breathes expansion and capabilities which offers possibilities and opportunities. Diversity seeks equity to exist, equity is essential for balance to be formed. Inequality is costly to all things within a Living System.
We are designed as an interrelated species, a relational species.
At its core the Living System is the wild thread of sacred that runs through all things and seeks to be experienced and felt asone. Together it seeks to explore diversity, create unity and become enriched and nourished with the fullness of life. Returning to the foundations of life as the Living System considers every aspect of our wellness and wellbeing amongst that of the whole, from our mental and physical state, our food/home/relationships, our sources, our environment, our connections and becoming as one.
It considers each of us as an entire system as well as our place within that system. It is congruent with making Life whole, and what place we make within that. It is life’s living philosophy.