This morning arrived with Sunshine and a cool breeze. A nice beginning. It didn't cool off much during the night, maybe down to 68F, but there was a nice breeze blowing in my bedroom window and I had an excellent sleep.
I sense there are many people going through turmoil right now. Perhaps, it is because everyone is anxious to get their act together. Folks have an idea about, what being a loving person is, and they are trying too hard to attain an ideal. Growing is natural. As natural as grass grows or leaves unfold. When we struggle to grow, we encourage ugly dormant ego programs to surface. That works. There is an easier way and that is focusing on loving ourselves and the folks around us. We must not get discouraged by our own craziness. Those ego programs cannot survive for any length of time in a sea of love.
The other thing is, the pain of the world, is being thrown in our face constantly. It is difficult to escape. We don't live in hermitages on a mountain top. The ugliness and pain, of the transforming world, encroaches on our space, no matter how we try to ignore it. And there are scary things; stock market crashes, war rumoring, distressing human migrations, and mistreatment of peoples in many ways and many places. However, the media doesn't 'accentuate the positive' as the song says. There are amazing human liberating things happening. People are waking up to how they are being manipulated. For all the negatives being presented in the media there are far greater positives. People are insisting on being free and being treated properly. Folks are waking up to the realization that we must pursue a loving solution for every problem.
Part of our evolution is the expression of anger. Expressing anger, to get rid of it, is one thing. Expressing it, and feeling justified by it, is another. It is not easy to accept, that anger is always negative, and never justified. We don't see that, until we understand, that everyone is trapped in their own ego dilemma. They are doing the best they can. If we see ourselves as further advanced, then it behooves us to find ways of enlightening them. I know, when their craziness infringes on our rights or well being, this is difficult. Just being open to the idea that anger is not the solution will be helpful.
Anger has been a major problem for folks of the last two generations. If we are angry, we are angry. Suppressing anger causes worst problems, depression and passive aggressiveness, being two of the most frequent. We need to look at what we are angry about. We need to see the basic innocence of everyone. We are all trapped in our craziness. If we understood fully where the other is coming from, we wouldn't be angry. We may be incredulous. We may have a hard time seeing it. We wouldn't be angry. We would feel compassion that they could be so blind, and trapped in their own pain, that they would be hurtful to another.
Forgiveness is the way out of our anger, but blind forgiveness is difficult. If we hold the general world view, that we are all trapped in this world of illusion, where we believe we are separate, it is easier to see forgiveness as the solution for all anger. We are all trapped in a myriad of beliefs and ideas about the 'other'. There is a point where we may recognize that all are indeed innocent; even those who prey on others, even war mongers, even bankers, everyone. Those who hurt others need to be apprehended and stopped; including bankers, generals, politicians and ordinary criminals. We should not be victims of their craziness. However, we can understand, that they are victims, of our experiment with separation. It is hard for some to see that somebody can be so misled, so much in the darkness, that they can be vile. Yet, our great authors, Shakespeare being one, were able to portray their villains as people, who themselves were locked into their perception, and believed what they were doing was right.
We created this world from our perception of separateness. Some took it to the extreme and felt it was license to exploit the rest. We are waking up. The exploiting must end. The perpetrators stopped. We must end this cycle of separateness by seeing their essential innocence, as we would like others, to see our innocence. We have, all, been crazy.
We must come to the conclusion that love is the solution for all our difficulties. It is the energy of the universe. It is the only reality. All else is illusion.
The good news is that things are changing fast. Folks are realizing their oneness with each other. Every time one of us, lets more light into their mind, it increases the light in everyone's mind. We are one and our consciousness is rising together. The more we shield our own minds, from the darkness in the world, the greater our own light will be.
Forgive the world.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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