SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

Looks like another beautiful day on Planet Earth. I got most of the lawn mowed yesterday and I feel good about that. I will get my little world in order.

I was reading something yesterday, I can't remember what, when I was suddenly filled with sadness for the world. I felt so sad I cried. I think I was reading something about another piece of corruption surfacing and this time it involved someone I respected.

I don't think I repress sadness, yet the depth of my feeling would indicate I may have; that is the feeling I have for the world, I am not angry but I am sad. I felt better realizing my sadness and I wondered if this hidden sadness didn't contribute to my recent gloom.

No matter how convinced we are of the awakening and no matter how much we are able to see the love that is growing, we also see the dying old world. It is there, and unless we completely shield ourselves from the media, we are reminded of it frequently.

Yesterday, Jamie told me she was seeing something very clearly. She realized, that our competitive culture and our focus on our supposed deficiencies, keeps us from realizing our most deepest desire – to be loved and be loving. Because of our upbringing and the systems we were immersed in, we often feel an emptiness, a hole inside; we assume that we need to achieve, to win, to get ahead to fill this hole. All that we can accomplish is to distract ourselves from the emptiness. The more we try, to be better than our fellow beings, the lonelier we get.

She expressed it in a very eloquent way and it struck me that it fit with the sadness I had been feeling for the world.

I would presume we are born loving beings. All that we need to do is be around babies, to know they encapsulate love, and they bring out love in us; they melt our hearts. However, the world of the big people, is an alien world, full of judgements, dos and don'ts. Love can be sporadic. Big people can be complicated, they can be filled with emotions that separate and confuse, as babies become little people they may decide, 'maybe I am not so lovable after all'.

We develop doubts about ourselves, holes that need filling. Then what does the world tell us? We need to be better, we need to achieve? Better than what? Better than who? We have forgotten, that what we want, is to love and feel loved. How can we feel love by being better than someone else? How can we feel love from those we are trying to separate from?

Oh yes, achievement and competition, can give a temporary fix and it can become quite addictive. It is poor substitute for realizing we are lovable. Like any addictive substance it wears off. Many people spend their whole life trying to feel love through competition and attainment; they are lonely.

This is a very painful and sad thing we have done in the old world!

Is there a way we can turn it around? When a baby comes into the world, they are love. Can we learn from them, rather than put out the spark? We have much to teach them; but do they have something more important to teach us? They haven't learned judgement yet. They haven't learned higher and lower. Everyone is still equal in their eyes.

Why do we have to struggle to relearn, what we must have known at birth? As we awaken, we might just take a look at this, and wonder what we can do differently.

Something to chew on.

Have a great Friday! Celebrate!

Love and Peace, Gregg