We humans have offered ourselves the illusion that we are somehow at the top of a pyramid of “evolved importance and superiority” amongst the array of life forms on the planet. We have told ourselves that we are separate in some fundamental way. My constant question is, how do we allow ourselves to recognize and experience that all life forms are equal children of Gaia, of our beautiful planet, that all express a particular and valued form and quality of consciousness, and that every life we encounter anywhere, anytime, is kin? 

~ Nancy J. Napier

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