how are the connections?

 

Skara Brae Buddo, human figure carved from whalebone, c. 2,900 – 2,400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement located in the Bay of Skaill on the Mainland, an island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland

 

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The Native American notion of All My Relations views all of reality and life as related and interconnected. Every aspect of life is seen as part of one intrinsic family.

In the Blackfoot tribe, when people meet, they don’t say 'How are you' but 'Tza Nee Da Bee Wah?' which means, 'How are the connections?' 

If the connections are in place, we must be all right. If the connections are not in place, then we need to tend them first.


—Mark Nepo

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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. 

We are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts—so many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of all things, including ourselves. I promise you this unified field is the only and lasting meaning of up.


—Richard Rohr
Falling Upward, excerpt

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