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One Community is founded on principles of conscious and conscientious living. "Conscious living" is an awareness that our interpretation of our environment is subjective, based only on our own experience, and the understanding that everything we know could be completely different from what is 'real' in the eyes of another. Being "conscious" is likened to being "awake." "Conscientious living" is an awareness of how our lives affect the lives of each other, society and the planet. Being "conscientious" is likened to being "aware." Living these principles means living a self-sustainable, high positive impact, life of appreciation and gratitude for each other and our life.
One Community is founded on principles of conscious and conscientious living. "Conscious living" is an awareness that our interpretation of our environment is subjective, based only on our own experience, and the understanding that everything we know could be completely different from what is 'real' in the eyes of another. Being "conscious" is likened to being "awake." "Conscientious living" is an awareness of how our lives affect the lives of each other, society and the planet. Being "conscientious" is likened to being "aware." Living these principles means living a self-sustainable, high positive impact, life of appreciation and gratitude for each other and our life.
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
~ Eckhart Tolle ~
We are building a conscious and conscientious community because it is the most cohesive and gentle way of living with each other and our environment. The 8 values levels, 4 levels of spirituality and the stages of achieving genuine community all lead to a place of being both awake and aware and One Community is dedicated to living and surrounding ourselves with this consciousness because it is the ultimate expression of acceptance, understanding and love.
Regardless of one's experience with quantum physics and/or points of perspective, it should be easy to agree that each person's perspective is unique because each person's life experiences and sources of information and the interpretation of that information are unique to that individual. Even something as simple as a spoon, an object we can all agree upon, isn't really the same to us because our life experiences with this common object are different. Our perception is so different that even if an individual sat down and wrote absolutely everything they could think of about a spoon, all their life experiences with it, we could read the whole thing and because we are filtering it with our own experience we STILL wouldn't really know what their experience is. This is the foundation of being awake.
Being "conscious" or "awake" is recognizing that everything we experience is subjective as proven by the fact that there are others out there with different views that are as real and correct in their world as ours is in ours. Living consciously thus means not taking anything too seriously. It means accepting our differences because anything else would be unfair and it means appreciating these differences because they are the only way we'll ever be able to even try and get a perspective other than our own.
The other aspect of being conscious is recognizing the uniqueness of our perspective on things comes with responsibility. Because everything is subjective we are also responsible for our perspective, we recognize that what may appear 'good' or 'bad' in our lives, and the lives of others, is just our point of view. E. Tolle says "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." Being awake means observing our minds for what they are and not taking ourselves (our thoughts) too seriously.
The other aspect of being conscious is recognizing the uniqueness of our perspective on things comes with responsibility. Because everything is subjective we are also responsible for our perspective, we recognize that what may appear 'good' or 'bad' in our lives, and the lives of others, is just our point of view. E. Tolle says "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." Being awake means observing our minds for what they are and not taking ourselves (our thoughts) too seriously.
Once we understand and accept being "awake" we should also be aware; conscientious that our actions affect others, our society and our planet. Living conscientiously means living in a way that minimizes our negative impact and maximizes our positive impact on others, our society and our planet one way we practice this is by our consensus decision making process and the lessons it teaches us.
At One Community we recognize the easiest way to minimize our negative impact AND maximize our positive impact on each other, society and the planet is by staying conscious/awake in our existence, sharing our natural gifts, and living self-sustainably. This is our recipe for being the change we wish to see in the world and affecting that change.
Doing our best to remember ourselves as this place of no-mind/awakeness/consciousness and conscientious/awareness we are ever creating One Community.
