Zara Taylor

i am a romantic (and proud of it;) and greater than my human need for connection is my innate obsession to be apart of something bigger than myself. lately, i’ve been talking with my friends about values and how relationships have to share certain priorities and values to be sustainable. the main question being:

is love and relationship your highest value or is it work and career?

we can think in terms of balancing our highest values between love and work and on a larger scale balancing the values of the planet.

are people our highest value or is economic growth?

that one’s been obvious for a long time, at least 50 years of crazy accelerated economic growth and global expansion at the cost of the poorest people and the environment…but at the end of the day it’s a tough argument that most would prefer to ignore because we all want to reap the benefits, be rich AND be happy. the ever growing obvious truth is that our planet is imbalanced, unsustainable and dying. we NEED both to care for the people, the environment and have sustainable growth to survive. this is not my topic of expertise but rather my fathers so please read his new and incredible book, EVOLUTIONS EDGE- the coming collapse and transformation of our planet by GRAEME TAYLOR. (it recently won the GOLD independent publisher’s award for book most likely to change the planet)…i’m sooooo  proud of you dad!

i feel i strive to find balance in my career and in my relationships but can you ever really have both?  it seems you’re either an addict or a pusher of a finite resource called LOVE.  

so in the name of human nature how is it different for the planet as a whole?

In my heart i know it starts with the self, loving the self, finding balance between self-love and giving love to your relationships, and to your work.  i also know in my heart that we can not run an emotional debt with ourselves if we want to have healthy relationships, because then you are always coming from a fear centered place driven by lack and need. in the same way, we can no longer afford to run a human debt on this planet, sacrificing people for profit and maintaining the mind frame that money has more value than the soul!