Author: David L. Smith

• “Spirituality” Defined

  Spirituality is a state of connectedness to life. It is an experience of being, belonging and caring. It is sensitivity and compassion, joy and hope. It is the harmony between the innermost life and the outer life, or the life of the world and the life of the universe. It is the supreme comprehension of…

  David L. Smith

  June 5, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, Cosmos, Earth, Ecology, Humanity, Nature, Perception, society, Spiritual, Values

  Belief, belonging, caring, compassion, connect, connectedness, eternal, good, goodness, happiness, harmony, hope, joy, life, meditation, mystery, peace, prayer, secret, sensitivity, space, stream, time, tuning, universe, world

• One Voice Can Make a Difference

  History has shown that just one respected voice calling for calm or reason among a lynch mob; or just one person of strong conscience on a jury; or just one journalist willing to mine for the truth, has turned the tide. If just one person can have so much impact, how do we each become…

  David L. Smith

  June 2, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, ethics, evolution, Perception, Political, society, truth, Values, virtue

  calm, chorus, conscience, cost, courage, defeat, entropy, ethics, face, history, impact, influence, journalist, jury, lynch, mob, opposition, person, reason, rigidity, risk, sleep, tide, voice, whistle

• Universal Expansion

  The universe is expanding. It’s a strange kind of expansion. It’s an expansion where every place in the universe is at the center of the expansion. When we look out into the universe, we see that all the other galaxies appear to be moving away from us. But if you were situated on another galaxy…

  David L. Smith

  May 29, 2023

  Astronomy, Cosmos, Earth, Perception, physics

  bread, center, expand, galaxies, galaxy, loaf, motion, perspective, raisin, rising, scientist, universe

• Higher Human Characteristics

  Human society can no longer afford behavior that is selfish, arrogant or separative. The time has come to mobilize every major discipline in human affairs— psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, economy, art, writing, drama, science and technology, business and industry and all that our electronic age is able to offer—for an all-out effort to inquire into…

  David L. Smith

  May 26, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, ethics, evolution, Humanity, Love, Perception, Political, Science, society, Spiritual, Technology, Transformation, Values, virtue

  altruistic, Art, business, community, courage, creativity, drama, electronic, empathy, faith, global, growth, humiligy, Love, philosophy, selfish, separate, social, species, theology, time, trust, writing

• Optimism for the Future

  When both the ‘study of the household’ (Ecology) and the ‘management of the household’ (Economics) can be merged, and when Ethics can be extended to include the environment as well as human values, then we can indeed be optimistic about the future of humankind. Eugene Odum, Biologist, father of modern ecologyAuthor, Basic Ecology: Fundamentals of…

  David L. Smith

  May 22, 2023

  Ecology, Economics, ethics, Humanity, society, Values

  building, construction, Ecology, household, Humanity, management, mankind, optimistic, Values

• The Purpose of Media

  The word ‘media’ is derived from the Latin word meaning ‘middle.’ The over-arching purpose of the media is to use the energy of mediation to foster right human relations. Through its capacity to bring light into dark places, to radiate images of the good, the true and the beautiful outward for all to see and…

  David L. Smith

  May 19, 2023

  consciousness, Education, Goodwill, Humanity, Love, Media, society

  beautiful, beauty, dark, good, hear, human, image, Latin, light, mediation, middle, purpose, radiate, relations, relationship, right, true

• Part-Whole Relationship

  Mach’s Principle: The whole is as necessary to the understanding of its parts, as the parts are necessary to the understanding of the whole. The universe as a whole influences local events & local events have an influence, however small, on the universe as a whole. If you cut a blade of grass, you shake…

  David L. Smith

  May 15, 2023

  consciousness, Cosmos, Science, Whole Systems Science

  blade, cut, event, grass, influence, Jaworski, local, relationship, shake, universe

• Love: To be “All For”

  Love may be described as the process of communicating to another that you are ‘all for them,’ that you will support them, not merely that you will accept them, but that you are actively for them. By being ‘all for’ is meant, first, that one is actively interested in the well-being of the other, that…

  David L. Smith

  May 12, 2023

  consciousness, Love, Values

  acceptance, active, affection, Ashley, attention, care, caring, communication, development, direction, human, interest, need, process, relationship, support, survival

• Navajo Values

  The Navajo Beauty Way includes four areas of knowledge: character development which leads to intelligent decisions, self-reliance which leads to contributing to the family and community through work and responsibility, emotional development which includes establishing caring relationships, and reverence and respect for nature. Herbert Benally, Emeritus professor, Diné College My other sites— Contemplative Photography David…

  David L. Smith

  May 8, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, Earth, Love, Nature, society, Spiritual, Values

  caring, character, community, decision, development, emotion, emotional, family, intelligence, knowledge, relationship, respect, responsibility, reverence, self-reliance, work

• Trees and Fungus

  Tree roots extend a long way, more than twice spread of the crown. So the root systems of neighboring trees inevitably intersect and grow into one another. Usually, there are fungi that operate like fiber-optic Internet cables. Their fine filaments penetrate the ground, weaving through it in almost unbelievable density. One teaspoon of forest soil…

  David L. Smith

  May 5, 2023

  Earth, Ecology, Nature

  agenda, cell, crown, danger, density, drought, electric, fiber-optic, filament, forest, frequency, ground, information, insect, nerve, resource, root, signal, square, system, teaspoon, transmission, weaving