Here is a simple premise – ‘we are all one’. Or in other words ‘what you do matters’.

Your intent, your actions, what you say and do matters, it has an effect, it makes a difference, to you, the people around you, your personal, local and global community.

I remember reading Neale Donald Walsch saying somewhere, something like, if we all understood, really understood, that we are all one, then all the world’s ‘problems’ would disappear in a trice. I understood this to mean that if we understood this truth we would simply not tolerate a starving child in Africa, a hungry child at our school, a bullied worker in our corridor, an exploited labourer in the Philippines, a homeless person in our city, a world divided into rich and poor, a sick person without care. We would not allow our governments to drop bombs, we would not allow corporations to poison rivers with pesticides, we would not tolerate the practice of mistreating animals and then calling it food, and so it goes on. THese things would just not happen if we all understood.

Consider this for a moment. Take yourself to somewhere out in the solar system look back on this tiny speck called planet earth.


So small, so vulnerable, hurtling through space, balanced by the wonders of gravity and motion just far enough from the star we call the sun to sustain life in its current form. What a tenuous, delicate balance of complex systems holds it all together.
See the ripple that each small action has on the whole system.


And yet many humans persist in behaving as though their own close, small horizon is all there is.

Take a moment to dwell with the concept of oneness on the physical plane: poison dumped in this river will kill the fish downstream and destroy someone’s food source, these shoes are cheap for me because indentured children have suffered to manufacture them in a third world sweat shop. And consider this oneness in an energetic sense: my cynicism and anger will bring negativity to the people around me, my good cheer will uplift my workplace. Consider too, how the physical and energetic come together: the intolerance for difference that I express in my vote for this political candidate will result in a law that will hurt other people by preventing them from accessing adequate medical care or education.

But, what if we got it! What if we really understood?

This is not a trivial question.

I invite you to consider carefully how your actions would change if you knew, really knew, the ripple effect.

I invite you to consider too, how empowered would you feel, if you knew, really knew the ripple effect of your positive actions and positive intent.