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What If We Discover How to Live?

Jane Tawel
3 min readMar 24, 2020

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“Abandoned Shelter” by carva822 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

What If We Discover How to Live?

By Jane Tawel

March 24, 2020

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What if we discover

that this is how we were meant to live?

What if by sheltering from the world,

We find shelter in each other?

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What if we discover

That this is how we save the planet?

Not by using, craving, hoarding, earning, making, shipping, storing

more and more and more and more and more and more,

But by simply doing less?

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What if we discover

That life is more entertaining when lived,

Than when watched?

That love is more meaningful when given,

Than when received?

What if we learn that

Hope is more fierce than fear ever could be?

That waiting and watching are more pleasant than grasping and greeding?

That Good will conquer both ignorance and evil if we believe it can?

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Jane Tawel
Jane Tawel

Written by Jane Tawel

Still not old enough to know better. Enjoys philosophy, spirituality, poetry, books of all genres.Often torn between encouragement & self-directed chastisement.

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