A Call to Revolution and Love by Michael W. Petit
"This a personal Love
letter, to all my favorite revolutionaries out there...
May our numbers, and our love for one another and the Earth, never cease to grow. ♥
May our numbers, and our love for one another and the Earth, never cease to grow. ♥
When I think of Revolution, I
think of the word in its alternate meaning, to Revolve, or to turn;
to stop in
our tracks on the mindless mainstream path so many are on, and turn and change
our axis of motion in our lives; to stop and turn and consciously change where
we place our personal energy, attention and resources.
Revolution means to use
revolutionary thinking and approaches to how we meet our needs,
and to think
and choose very consciously what our actions support, and what supports us.
Revolution
is to engage in RE-evolution of our system of self-support.
It is to use our
power to think and to choose where our money goes, where our food, goods,
energy and transportation come from, and begin to turn.
Turn to the task of
building a life that needs nothing produced by mega-corporations to support
it.
This is Revolution.
Turn your heart away from the
desire to have the glittering prizes of false wealth and money and seek a
deeper connection and relationship to the earth and those around you.
This is
Revolution.
Look deeply at your life and
begin to find ways to disconnect your personal relationships to the mass-market
industrial complex and replace these, one by one with new and fulfilling
relationships that are sustainable for the planet and those around you.
This is
Revolution.
Revolution begins when you
decide to stop and to turn, and to move on a revolutionary new path in your
life, that leads in a different direction than the one you are being mentally
herded in by the illusion of social consensus and peer pressure, generated by
commercial mass-media.
Revolution begins when you
decide to revolutionize your thinking about how you live your life and how your
needs and the needs of your family are met every day. And when you realize that
all the wealth and affluence of our society gives you the power to choose a
different path than the one our commercial mass-media has designed for you, and
when you begin to act on that knowledge; when you start to turn and consciously
revolve and
re-evolve the way you move through this world and relate to it, a
Revolution has begun.
A Revolution of humility, of conscience, of awareness, of
thoughtfulness and simplicity has begun, and is going on all around you. It is
one that like a river, though it begins with the sound of raindrops on a
mountain, little by little grows to be a strong and quiet force unstoppable,
that shapes the land around it.
I
am calling you to Revolution.
I am calling you to turn and to revolve upon the
axis of your conscious choices, and seek a new direction.
I am calling you to
Re-evolve and revolutionize your vision of the future, and more deeply own your
role in its creation.
I call you not as leaders call for a revolt.
I call you
as a child calls for your compassion.
I call you like the rain, like the river,
like the mountain, like the ocean is already calling.
I call you with a heart that
echoes with their voices.
I call you not as a leader, for
you will lead the way.
