Everything in this universe is coherent. The laws governing the nature and the laws governing our lives and the social phenomenons around us, they all are coherent. Therefore for an observer, the whole universe is a library. He attains peace by learning and aligning himself with the laws of nature
From the Diary of an Observer
Few years back, in one of the cities of Pakistan, palm trees were artificially implanted to beautify the road sides. The local government spent millions to buy and implant those trees. There is no doubt about the fact that, in those days, the road sides were giving a scenery of a well developed Arab city, like Dubai. However, the reality was that neither the plants had deep roots inside the soil nor the soil was compatible with the nature of palm trees. Hence the inevitable happened and, within a few months, the trees dried or were uprooted by strong winds leaving the roadsides shallow for eyes.
Human ideologies, values, moral standards and etiquette are also like these trees. If they are planted on a suitable time in a suitable soil, they are bound to flourish. At the same time, if they have deep roots within human personality, then the storms can not uproot them. I find this law of deep roots and suitable soil significantly relevant for contemporary liberal and religious groups who are working towards the "implementation" of their ideologies and values on people.
On one hand, for example, some religious groups wish to implement religious code of conduct on society without analyzing the status of peoples' affiliation with religion and its conduct and without developing the religious roots in human personality. They just want to impose the religious conduct on followers. In my opinion, this way of implementation of religion just covers the dust and does not clean it. On the other hand, liberals also do the same when they propagate their ideologies to foreign lands. Their ideals of liberty, uncontrolled freedom, ubiquitous gender equality, western democracy, attitude towards homosexuality etc, are exotic to a major part of the world. However, they still insist, actively or passively, on imposing these values. In both of the aforementioned cases, the results is hypocrisy and chaos, respectively. Unless the ideologies and values are deeply rooted in individual's personality, they can not flourish on collective and national level. The inevitable fate of all such efforts, which do not comply with the roots-and-soil law, is no different than that of uprooted palm trees.
We humans have come a long way in material development. Biomimetics is a field of science which deals with imitation of nature to solve complex human problems. I think, its time that we take lessons from nature for complex socio-cultural as well as psychological problems. I invite you to learn from small observations from the nature around us.
Wherever you are, be a source of comfort and love for the creatures around you.
