Ubuntu

 Ubuntu

Africans believe on a thing called Ubuntu. It means a person is a person through other persons. Your humanity is bound up, caught up, inextricably with others. 

When you dehumanize someone, in reality you are dehumanizing yourself.

The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms. Therefore you should seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own in community, in belonging. 

The Ubuntu concept is that we each exist as an extension of one another. We are all innately connected through our being here on Earth at the same time.

When one person suffers, we all suffer. When one person rejoices, we all rejoice.

Sadly, the current state of the world is anything but connected. Everywhere we turn we see disconnect There are wars being fought because we insist on division.

On a global scale, we insist on choosing righteousness over the connection to others. 

We insist on holding on to the pain of the past and using it to fuel the wars of the present.

Further to this global issue, on person to person level, we are not connecting either. Many of us are hiding our truth and avoiding the vulnerability of sharing ourselves with our fellow humans.

Concepts along the lines of “suffer in silence, don’t share your wins, don’t share your pain” all feed into the separation consciousness.

This is tragic because, at the deepest level, we all want to connect. Primarily, we all want to love and we all want to feel accepted.

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