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The beginnings of a new story/an old story retold

The beginnings of a new story/an old story retold. ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, t he rational mind is a faithful servant’ Albert Einstein. Definition of Poverty. Poverty is………. Definition of Poverty. Poverty is ‘When you are disconnected from the spirit

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The beginnings of a new story/an old story retold

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  1. The beginnings of a new story/an old story retold

  2. ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant’ Albert Einstein

  3. Definition of Poverty Poverty is………

  4. Definition of Poverty Poverty is ‘When you are disconnected from the spirit When you are disconnected from your community When you don’t have enough to share’ WeraMiram – Santa Catarina- Brazil

  5. Disconnected from the spirit ‘All things are connected’ Our relationship with the Great Spirit, to our inner selves, to our communities and to nature are all connected They form the fabric, the tapestry of our lives

  6. Disconnected Deepest level – alone/separate Drop out of the ocean Aloneness

  7. Disconnected Aloneness fill the void/the emptiness with the pursuit of pleasure, with striving for success, with doing good works, with keeping busy, with alcohol, sex, drugs ‘You ran a good race but you where on the wrong track’ St Augustine ‘You can’t put out a fire with hay’ Buddha

  8. All things are connected Beyond the aloneness Sense of unity At one with the ocean At one with all things

  9. One of the main drivers of the consumer society Is our inability to come to terms with our aloneness

  10. Disconnected from community From this Indigenous perspective Being part of a community is fundamental to human well being

  11. Community Community includes the natural world Chief Seattle

  12. All things are connected ‘I am because we are’ Maria

  13. Disconnection Indigenous peoples from around the world Alcohol & drug addictions Aboriginal story

  14. Disconnection Industrialisation & Alienation Karl Marx

  15. Disconnection Integration??? Tearing at the fabric of community

  16. Disconnection Advertisers Products connect you to a community

  17. Connected At one with the spirit and at one with community the only material need is to have enough to share with others ‘I didn’t know I was poor until you came’ ‘You can measure the dis-connectedness of a society by measuring its drive for material wealth’

  18. One of the main drivers of the consumer society Is our disconnectedness from community

  19. Reflection Resonate I want to challenge I am challenged by

  20. Reflection ‘Only dead fish swim with the stream’ Chinese proverb

  21. Reflection ‘It is not our abilities that make us who we are, it is our choices’

  22. Reflection ‘Our aspirations are our possibilities’ Robert Browning

  23. Reflection ‘Always we begin again’ Rule of St Benedict

  24. Reflection ‘I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity’ Ghandi

  25. Reflection ‘We are social animals driven by relationships not rational animals driven by economics’

  26. Reflection ‘Industrialisation has fed the body but imprisoned the soul’

  27. Reflection “Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

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