Saying Goodbye-
Do we ever really say goodbye? If we are made up of the same thing that is in the air around us, if the very atoms we breathe are the same as the deepest pieces of ourselves then we MUST be only and literally ONE organism. The earth, the stars, the body dancing in front of us, the one we are walking sadly away from are all moving parts of the one being! Different densities for sure, interesting conglomerations but when looked at on the level of Physics we are a pulsing, colourful, fluid energy. How then, can we say goodbye to parts of our own being, it just isn’t possible no matter how you look at it. I am thinking it is simply a misunderstanding that makes us cry when someone we love goes away. We have forgotten that we are the one body, that we are breathing each other all the time. People resist this concept because as romantic as it all sounds to embrace it fully we must first accept that EVERYTHING is us, not just the pretty bits or the sentimental bits. Not so easy but the payoff is the greatest. Because it means that we will never be alone, ever again. It takes courage to look this concept squarely in the eye. If done thoroughly you will find that every part of you is unable to act any differently or it really really would. That’s not to say that awful things should be happening, of course they ‘shouldn’t’ but the fact is they are and until they are met with a degree of acceptance and compassion they probably won’t change, not permanently anyway. The way to find this compassion is to understand the truth of the concept of oneness; it is not an airy fairy, rings on the fingers and bells on the toes sing along, it is a literal, scientifically based truth. We ARE each other, our cells slough off and regenerate constantly, we never entirely disappear even when we die there is nowhere for us to go, we are one big strange being that just changes form as it pleases. It is only dreams and stories that cause us to feel the pain that we do when the one we love walks away. If God is life and God is Love and we are life, then we are God and we are love and we are always together.
HA, you thought you could leave me but you have not gone anywhere my love you are still here, I just took a breathe of you and you taste great…. all I want to know now is………what’s next on the menu?
Terrorism and Bullying
I have a theory about terrorism, I do not believe that it is possible to deliver the world from the evils of terrorism without first ridding ourselves of our own personal terroristic tendencies. It starts with powerlessness. I can almost hear everyone shouting, I AM NOT A TERRORIST. Well maybe you’re not, but are you a bully? For example, someone rushes by you knocking something out of your hand, do you smile and feel okay about that or do you growl and wish to push them angrily? Your child drops a glass filled with milk all over the new carpet, do you respond with ‘that’s okay, help me clean it up, let’s be more careful next time, Honey,’( because of course the carpet is less important than the emotional wellbeing of your child after all it is much easier to remedy a smelly wet carpet than fix damage done in childhood) or is it a reaction that issues unguarded from your lips “ YOU”RE SO CLUMSY, why don’t you watch what you’re doing, OH MY GOD The carpet cost $2000, it’s ruined, get outta my sight’ leaving the child feeling guilty and scared of upsetting and disappointing you. Maybe the child won’t spill milk again or maybe now the child is so nervous he can’t even drink milk without that memory reverberating in the back of his mind. Maybe that failure permeates the child’s life taking on myriad forms and causing a ripple of fear in every uncertain situation.
I’m not trying to cause more guilt by illustrating this point, but offering an insight into the possible source for the terror in our society. If we were each treated with respect, given freedom of choice, understood in our weaker or sillier moments, accepted despite our shortcomings and delighted in for our quirks and differences when we were little enough for this to become implicit to our being do you think we would be as likely to grow up needing to prove ourselves and fight for our rights so adamantly and violently. Consider it….even if there was a cause, a social injustice to be remedied all our programming would be about gentleness and peaceful problem solving Human life and emotional health would be sanctified above material gain and above the idea of an abstract God that lives outside of our soul, we would be satisfied. There would be no call for MORE or desire to force anyone to see things one way. We wouldn’t be insecure and frightened we would not need to terrorise to make a point. Our lives shared in joy, with each other would BE the point.
Address the terrorist that lives in your house, in your heart and maybe then we are on our way to the end of bullying and terrorism once and for all. Either way you look at it one person makes an exponential difference, there is no denying it.
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