Al Owski > Recent Status Updates

“Some of us have lost our biological parents to death or mental illness or estrangement. Some of us have no sisters or brothers to hold us in relationships of care and support. We lose friends too, we lose places and pets and familiar smells and voices. We may feel like strangers in the world, even among our closest friends when they have no response to our pain and anger.”

“Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change- Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.”

“The Trinity's high strength is our Father, the Trinity's deep Wisdom is our Mother, and the Trinity's great Love is our Protector. These Three are ours, woven into the nature and substance of our being.”

“Your teachers. Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.”

“When we realize all things are created and held in Divine love, we begin to walk differently on the Earth. Everything becomes holy and worthy of care. We are not able to do all the necessary caring, since we are finite and in need of care ourselves. Still, we can participate in God's ongoing work of love, and we can hope for Creation's healing.”

“As wind, As water, As fire, As life, God Is both creative and destructive, Demanding and yielding, Sculptor and clay. God is Infinite Potential: God is Change.”

“No matter how much [the Fiend (the devil)] labors, he continually sees souls escape his grasp by virtue of Christ's Endurance. This is his misery, for although God allows him to work in our world, each of his actions is turned to joy by Divine action. He might as well not do anything at all, for his efforts come to nothing. All his strength is absorbed by God and turned to good.”

“"I didn't know what to do, so for some time I didn't do anything. Friends took care of me, cooked for me, cleaned the house. It surprised me that they would do that. Church people most of them. Neighbors. More her friends than mine."”

“No one can stop Change, but we all shape Change whether we mean to or not. I mean to guide and shape Earthseed into what it should be.”

“ "All right. But tell me, what do people have to do to be good members of an Earthseed Community?" A nice, door-opening question. "The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves, and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny." ”

“Stumbling across the truth isn't the same thing as making it up.”

“The Self must create Its own reasons for being. To shape God, Shape Self.”

“God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.”

“Changes. The galaxies move through space. The stars ignite, burn, age, cool, evolving. God is Change. God prevails.”

“I don't care about no outer space. You can keep that part of it. But if you want to put together some kind of community where people look out for each other and don't have to take being pushed around, I'm with you.”

“Change is ongoing. Everything position, composition, frequency, changes velocity, in some way—size, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.”

“Once or twice each week A Gathering of Earthseed is a good and necessary thing. It vents emotion, then quiets the mind. It focuses attention, strengthens purpose, and unifies people.”

“Embrace diversity. Unite — Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.”

“Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.”

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

“We are Earthseed. We are flesh—self aware, questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife preparing to fall away from the parent world. We are Earthlife preparing to take root in new ground, Earthlife fulfilling its purpose, its promise, its Destiny.”

“We are Earthseed. The life that perceives itself Changing.”

“Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.”

“They remember old hates and generate new ones, They create chaos and nurture it. They kill and kill and kill, Until they are exhausted and destroyed, Until they are conquered by outside forces, Or until one of them becomes A leader Most will follow, Or a tyrant. Most fear.”

“When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must—God is Change—
People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough. To unify people. They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power.

“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.”

“All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”

“To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior.”

“A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.”

“Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.”