“I want my life to challenge people to think philosophically. I want people to ask themselves and each other what time it is on the clock of the world.”
~ Grace Lee Boggs, 1915 – 2015 ~
i’m a day late for this honoring of an astonishing light of being, a revolutionary i love re-membering on the day she died, may she continue to rest in power as we reflect on her life of sacred activism… more than ever, this question is the question of the hour – may we all live this question as contemplative quest and re-member some more of her sage words on what time it is on the clock of the world…
“We need to find that balance of life that respects each other, that thinks that the most important thing at this time on the clock of the world is not our accumulation of things, is not economic growth which threatens and imperils all life on this planet including ourselves, that the time has come to grow our souls, to grow our relationships with one another, to create families that are loving and communities that are loving, to bring the neighbor back into the hood.”
what time is it on the clock of the world?
since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust… The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who attend to this clock originally set the device at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight being, essentially, the end of the world; the farthest that the clock has been from midnight was in 1991 when it was set at 17 minutes from midnight and the closest to midnight that the clock has been is now at 100 seconds from midnight with the motivation for this alarming setting being the unilateral withdrawal by the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019… many see this moment of eternity as the most dangerous situation that humanity has faced which is why it is so crucial for the human family to demand of the power mad executives of the world that we want peace which is our only security and that we demand all the trillions of dollars spent for blowing up the world be allocated to peace and healthcare and education and housing…
“The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred teachings of humankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations and the human family. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet!”
~ Universal House of Justice ~
and so it is, blessed bee…
