What Are Community Values?

what are Community

Values Martin Luther King once said we

are caught in an in escapable web of

mutuality tied in a single Garment of

Destiny

whatever affects one directly affects us

all indirectly I can never be what I

ought to be until you are what you ought

to be this is the way the world is

made do you know why geese fly together

in a

V together they can fly faster and

further than anyone Goose can fly on its

own when one Goose gets tired another

takes the lead they help each

other in The Villages of the Philippines

people work together when a family needs

to move their house the whole village

helps in talog this is called B Anan

which means Community like we're all in

one big house the whole world all in it

together

in Amish communities in the United

States people also come together to

build houses these Barn raisings have

been part of American tradition for

centuries everyone pitches into help

everyone is woven

together many of the world's religions

and spiritual Traditions say we're

connected to each other that we're a

human community part of the same whole

in the Bible Jesus says Thou shalt love

thy neighbor as thyself the Old

Testament says have we not all one

father has not one God created us the

Quran says oh Mankind we created you

from a single pair of a male and a

female the native leader Chief Seattle

once wrote All Things are connected like

the blood that unites one family the

Hindu babad G that reads I look upon All

Creatures equally none less dear to me

and none more dear Buddhists call this

anata the idea that not only are all of

us equal and connected but that we're

all one no matter what we

believe did you know that even on a

molecular level there's really no

difference between us there are no such

thing as me particles and you particles

there's Just Energy the same energy

that's in me is sometimes in you it's

always changing connecting us to each

other we've always known we're all in it

together in the early

1900s the American workers realized

their shared fate and organized to form

unions in solidarity together today

around the world workers own factories

and businesses themselves because they

know what's good for communities is good

for

business in fact the whole planet is

interconnected from every small town to

every Big City over mountains across

oceans every corner of the globe is tied

together in that inescapable Garment of

destiny that Martin Luther King talked

about when Americans use too much

electricity we feel it in Indonesia IIA

when people are sick in Russia we feel

it in Brazil because we're all just part

of one continuous

threat how would your life change if we

saw the whole planet is part of your

community part of

you how would our society change if we

saw the whole planet as part of our

community part of us

what would you do differently what would

we all do

differently visit

www.c Community change.org to learn more

about the Community Values we all share

and how together we can make the world a

better place for everyone