Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to understand it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all embracing love...Things flow and are indirectly linked together, and if you push here, something will move at the other end of the world. If you strike here, something somewhere will wince; if you sin here, something somewhere will suffer. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
As the ultimate expression of God's love, creation is yearning to tell us that we are inextricably linked together. Every move, great or small, toward this linkage is a movement toward Life. Every move away from it is a movement toward Death.
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