Do Unto Others…

Photo Anna Earl

We at Our Spiritual Earth are convinced that to “do unto others as you would they do to you’ is the secret of a happy and peaceful life.  Much of the destruction of our wonderful Mother Earth and its human inhabitants has been as a result of our forgetting this Golden Rule.  Somehow, every time we do something to our own benefit but at a cost to another, we pay a price and they do too. 

There is an abundance of examples of this once we know where to look. For example, buying a new pair of jeans when we already have several pairs without realising that growing cotton for those jeans is destroying parts of our planet because the growing of cotton takes vast amounts of water.  On a more local level, using pesticides and insecticides on our land may increase our crops but it pours poisons into our air and water systems which effects our bees, birds, butterflies.  It is shocking that the label on the back of most drain cleaners says that the product may affect marine life. Happily, there is increasing awareness of the interconnectedness of all life on earth.  

Our own well-being and that of our family, friends, the earth and all its inhabitants is greatly affected by our choices so let’s wake up and see how best we can ‘do unto others as you would others do to you.”