We are our brothers and sisters keepers. No man is an island. We are here on this planet
at this very point in time for a reason, a mission, our dharma. We do not carry on our lives in a vacuum. We need other people and other people need us.
Fear of scarcity of earthly resources and lack of homes, finances and a host of other things to fear is at the root of today’s social crisis. Greed seems to capture the attention of people in today’s national and global agendas. But the reason greed appears to be the problem of what is going on in the United States of America, as well as many other countries in the world, is that people beating the drum of greed are really saying that if we give and share more, there won’t be enough to go around. This is what fear looks like.
The earth, particularly the United States of America, certainly has enough room and resources to share with the immigrants of today, just as it took care of us, our parents and grandparents in generations before we were here. A recent trip from California to Massachusetts and the states in between demonstrated that to me first hand this spring. Fall foliage trips throughout the northeast USA also boasted of a plentiful land. There is more than enough room in this spacious country to host immigrants of other countries in need of food, shelter, clothing and safety.
Fear makes people look down a dark tunnel of non-reality. Take the subject of jobs for example. Rather than seeing that we are allowing in more doctors, nurses, scientists, and teachers, fear dehydrates the thought process to falsely believe they want our very own jobs. Opportunity and growth happens with more ideas and workforce, not less.