The Moral Compass
I have been quiet here for a while as I navigate my own life, but today I felt called to write.
Soft reflections fall heavily here in Australia as we, both as a nation and as part of a global collective, process the tragedy that unfolded on our shores. Australia has always been known as a land of the free, a place where life is lived openly, safely, and in shared community. An attack against innocent humans, people celebrating life, now robbed of life and freedom, cuts deeply into that collective sense of safety.
Many of us sit quietly within our own minds, trying to make sense of an atrocity that feels impossible to understand. We ask how and why a human being can feel entitled to take the life of another. We are born into this world with the heartbeat of the Earth running through us all, a natural moral compass woven into our being. And yet we are left wondering how the world can feel so cold when there are millions of warm hearts beating within it.
No one wants this. And still, it keeps happening.
We share the same heartbeat, regardless of where we are placed on this Earth. That truth echoes across cultures, borders, and beliefs. I am only a small drop in a vast ocean, yet I can feel the conscious collective of the world speaking, grieving, questioning, protesting in its own way, and searching for new ways to rise beyond the old world we have inherited.
There is a quiet refusal that has been moving through humanity. A refusal to accept violence as normal. A refusal to believe that fear is the natural state of our existence. The collective is asking, gently but persistently, for a new way forward, one rooted in remembrance rather than domination.
At the core, everyone wants to feel safe. Everyone wants to live without fear. For some, fear has been all they have ever known, born into lands shaped by conflict and survival. And yet the deeper truth remains, no one wants destruction, no one wants war. The soul of the world is calling for something different.
May we remember our shared humanity. May we respect each other’s ecosystems, cultures, and ways of living. And may we choose care, consciousness, and connection as we learn how to rise, together, into what comes next.
May we remember that the future is shaped not by fear, but by the consciousness we choose to embody.
