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EarthLight: Vision and Principles Statement -- 2005
By the EarthLight extended community
We offer these reflections on our vision, mission and principles as part of the process of understanding and refining what we're up to here at EarthLight. We hope people will find them inspiring and that organizations will find in these ideas a stimulus to express their own vision and principles more consciously, richly and completely. Hope is a garden of visions. Let's plant it with wonderful variety.
the EarthLight extended community
Creation Gerald McDermott
Vision
A vibrant Earth community for future generations of all species.
Mission
To live, communicate, and celebrate a story that vitalizes our sacred relationship with the living Earth.
Seven Principles of Our Evolving Earth Spirtuality
 Sacred Relationship Meganne Forbes
1. Sacred Relationship
We acknowledge and honor the Spirit that brings us forth in interdependence.
In so doing, we live in sacred relationship.
 Pilgrim Marion C. Honors
2. Conscious Evolution
We actively explore how we as individuals and as a species can move toward a way of living that embodies mutually enhancing relations with all Earth’s life-forms and natural systems.
In so doing, we live in connection to and with reverence for all life.

Huichol Yarn Painting
3. Collective Wisdom
We honor the essence of the world’s wisdom traditions as important sources for learning values of compassion, reverence, and gratitude.
In so doing, we awaken to a deeper, contemporary wisdom.

Two women, Palestinian and Jewish, meet during a Compassionate Listening
Delegation 4. Mutual Learning
We engage in mutual learning experiences as we create an Earth community listening and speaking from the heart.
In so doing, we are informed by one another’s wisdom and compassion.

Interwoven Decisions Meganne Forbes Conscious Choice
We recognize that our daily choices, even the small and habitual ones, have an impact on Earth’s species in both beneficial and destructive ways. We seek to promote lifestyles that lead to social justice, sustainability, and ecological security for all life on Earth.
In so doing, we live with conscious intent.

Compass of Life Meganne Forbes
6. Inclusivity
We embrace the challenges and joys of truly diverse viewpoints and values in all areas of life in order to more fully accept and understand the depth of each other’s experience. We value Earth’s diversity of life and respect the rights of each species to flourish in its unique expression.
In so doing, we foster and encourage the unique gifts in one another and in all life.
Merged with the Jungle Susan Cohen Thompson
7. Celebration
We celebrate the human role as a positive, life-enhancing agent in Earth’s unfolding story.
In so doing, we live in the wonder and mystery of the living Universe.
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