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When I am searching for a healthy leader, a wise teacher, a mature mentor, I look for someone who knows from experience when a family member dies a cherished part of her or himself also is lifetime lost. I look more for someone who at least might feel, even for a short moment, that s/he would prefer it had been her or himself. Why does this matter? Because without this maturity of extended family identity, security, love, adolescent and even childish issues evoke ego-mania rather than wiser and slower and steadier eco-passion with other human natures as with other EarthTribe cellular health natures. Cells whose purpose becomes reduced to self-thrival grow leaders of cancerous pathology. Cells whose purpose remains to reproduce their full contribution to organic families, their extended forests of life, their ecological eco-root systems, are those mentors my healthy wealth most needs and craves and would gladly step-aside from my personal agenda to listen to and learn what remains of our synergetic purpose, regenerative meaning. I would be more drawn to a parent who would say My son broke the law because I asked him to, and he trusted me to not ask him to do or not do anything that would become a problem for him. I would steer away from someone who would say My son did it on his own qualitative initiative and never said a word to me about it, but I respect him anyway. And, by the way, those corporations that fell apart while I was CEO, well they did that all on their own right after I drew my final paycheck and quarterly return on my short-term investment. I would not nominate such a person for public office, or even any private office, for s/he does not know the wisdom of a healthy cell, s/he has not felt the crippling loss of a wise mentor, and is thereby her/himself exposed to monoculturing cannibalistic tendencies of self and other exploitation, eating our young; not strong CEO maturity because not a strong mentor of future compassionate CEOs.
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