Injustice

Injustice (from March 28, 2010)

During this time, Alberto and I were going through a very difficult situation where we were being vilified and attacked for trying to introduce new ideas that we (and those whom we represented) wanted to see implemented. We felt a strong sense of injustice, of being unfairly attacked on personal levels, when all we wanted to do was bring about an opening of perspectives in an environment that was especially conservative, almost dictatorial.

I meditated a great deal during that time, trying to find the energy and will to act with love and wisdom. In one of my meditations, words flowed that shifted my thinking into what the true nature of this situation was all about.

It’s important to understand that their choices do not reflect on you as a person. They are not an attack on you, and do not make you any less of who you are. Their choices, and the consequences of those choices, are theirs alone.

Don’t be fooled by appearances, by what you perceive as their winning and your losing.

How are you any different than the Palestinian or Israeli who has lost a loved one, and is now asked to love their “enemy”? How is your situation right now, your thoughts, your feelings any different from theirs? How can you ask them to “love their enemy” when you yourself can’t do it? And all they did to you was injure your pride, your sense of right and wrong.

I tell you this…that until you find that forgiveness, that peace and love for your perceived enemy in this situation, no one in your outer world will be able to do it. The first step is within you.

Find that place of PEACE within you, and you have it found it for the world.

Find it, nurture it, and watch it expand to heal the world.

That is all you have to do.

You are the living Light and example.

Your strength in that feeling feeds it, gives it POWER… and it is that power, the power of that feeling, that energy, that vibration that heals you and, in consequence, the world.

Find that place of certainty, and with that certainty, you have healed the world.

It is no small task, for you are undoing millennia of evolution, of DNA and cells programmed with thought-patterns that are interconnected with feeling-patterns. The break (and healing) must happen on all levels.

That is the journey of peace…yours and humanity’s.

Me: How do I liberate myself from these feelings of injustice, of being wronged, of betrayal, of having lost a battle… they all weigh me down and distract me from being able to do all that you suggest.

The Light that you are can never be destroyed. You must understand that first. The flame that Moses saw is the flame and spark inside of you. That will never change. That is God in you wrapped in layers of flesh and density for the purpose of experimenting.

But this seed never dies. It only expands and burns more brightly as your knowing expands.

Release your thoughts. Breathe. Deeply. Drop into your heart. Your mind demands answers to your questions. But until you can FEEL your essence, you cannot arrive at an answer that satisfies both heart and soul, and not simply your mind.

The love in your heart makes your beautiful thoughts more beautiful, and amplifies them. In its presence, your negative thoughts can’t help but disperse and fade away. They are healed and transformed, not destroyed, in the presence of your love.

It is a heart filled with Divine Love that heals your thoughts, nothing more. Its presence moves you to tears for the exquisite beauty, simplicity and grace of your task.

There is nothing more to do than that…than to FEEL LOVE in every moment.

Your mind screams at you for more. It wants more concrete answers, solutions, affirmations…but the answer lies in the feeling of this energy called LOVE in every moment.

Look at your perceived enemy. Look closely. Where do you think that “enemy” truly is? Where do you think that energy came from? Who do you think put it there?

You placed that ‘dictator-you’ there to heal her, to give her the same light you give yourself.

Your heart is divided, and the only way it knew to show you its pain and division was to put it out for you to plainly see it, to touch it, to give it form.

While inside your heart, the pain remains nebulous, untouchable, formless.

Thus, in your quest for healing and Self-mastery, you decided to give your pain form.

The ‘dictator’ is your pain. She came forth from within your heart -- you gave her that form -- desiring nothing more than that she be seen so that you may understand her. She is you, the pain of a divided heart manifesting itself in this form so that you may finally see her, and bring her relief.

YOU are the projector. You project pain, feelings, experiences that need to be healed. You project them through the lens of your heart for the sole and soul purpose of bringing them the peace and love they/you truly desire.

When you express love towards them, you are expressing love towards yourself.

When you see them as wounds to be healed, you are seeing your wounds that are asking for healing.

To translate this knowledge into action requires tremendous courage.

Grow in love and appreciation for the ‘dictator-me’ or the ‘victim-me’ or the ‘fearful-me’. Fill your heart with love and appreciation for them/you.

Forgiveness is an energy that they will feel emanating from you. So is love.

You don’t have to do anything more than RADIATE that feeling/energy/vibration to them. Nothing more.

Grand gestures are not needed, for they may not be ready to receive them at this time. But they will be attracted to your energy, and in time, will embrace it.

It’s like a lover tentatively reaching out to a desired beloved. She will not necessarily embrace him all at once, but his love leaves an imprint that desires to grow, for that is the nature of love… to grow.

And so, send it out at all times. FEEL it at all times. Don’t merely think it. Your thoughts are not enough. Your FEELINGS are what are most needed.

And so shall you create peace.

Syria, on the inner planes

"The Master within cannot arise while caged in a heart of fear. Fear, in all its guises, from righteousness to condemnation, is roaming the hearts. Put aside for a moment your concepts of right and wrong, of justice, of saving the world… these will come about as a consequence of hearts and minds that have learned to bring fear back to its natural state. The solution to war is not peace, the solution is love; to move beyond fear, in whatever guise it chooses to take, into stillness, into calm. That is the only work, the only action, although your mind rebels and cries out that you somehow must DO MORE, DO SOMETHING. Only in stillness can you feel the inspiration to take the next steps.

Although I understand intellectually what you say, one cannot teach a drowning man how to swim… first, he is taken out, and then taught. Fear and hopelessness that one individual, or even multitudes, cannot change or stop what is happening… that is the energy that is gripping people.

Always remember that at the level of the soul, all is well, all is perfect. Remember this illusion, this story that you as humanity are writing. You are choosing your story… the story that a soldier must fight. The story that the people are powerless. You are choosing the story of the people as victims and their leaders as the victimizers. This is a story that you are playing out over and again, from your personal lives, to your interactions with people around you, to those who govern you. You are writing and creating this story of victimhood and separation in every moment. That is why peace begins with inner work, with reclaiming the power of the divinity that you are, by remembering your soul purpose, by re-writing the story of this drama that you are all co-creating.

Are you a helpless victim of circumstances you perceive are beyond your control? Or are you a Master in search of expression?

Are you going to legitimize conflict by feeding the fears that drive it? Or are you going to seek that courage within you that demands that you remember who you are and act on it?

You all have choice. You each have power. You, the people, whether you are an officer in the military, a politican, or a street cleaner... you have the power. Will you exercise it?

State of Union - Israel and Palestine

From March 20, 2013
A recent documentary that I watched about the current state of tensions in Israel-Palestine got me thinking about the inner state of that Promised Land. Is that land still divided within? Where are the divisions? What requires healing within me? What will create peace and harmony within? I know that peace is growing because I see continually expanding evidence of it in the number of individuals creating it (e.g. Israel-loves-Iran and Palestine-loves-Israel movements).

The state of union moves ever closer and, as it does, unleashes the fury of the resistance, long-entrenched, believing it is its right to be there at all costs.

Resistance comes from deep fear, for in the moment these elements stop resisting, there exists the possibility that they might stop existing. That is what currently defines their (meaning the fears, the anger) existence.

In your own heart must there be a place for the resistors, for their existence is at stake. The Love in the heart, the strength of the Light, must be strong enough to assuage the resistors. They held sway over the entire heart at one time and are reluctant to let that territory go. They are uncomfortable in the Light because they don’t know what it’s going to do to them.

Rather than obliterate them into non-existence, resistors must be made to see their role in the Light and AS the Light.

Filled with that Light, an energy of entitlement shifts to one of co-existence. The energy hasn’t disappeared. It has merely been allowed to see the other end of its energetic spectrum, to see the positive itself of itself, of that quality that it carries.

Fear of disappearance, fear of no longer existing, fear of a dream dying…those are the energies that also need to be transmuted to the other end of their spectrum. Fear of a dream dying may become the beauty and excitement of a new dream envisioned today, not driven by ideas of the past but by possibilities of the future.

Look within for a moment and stop thinking about the Israelis and Palestinians. What is occurring at the moment on a macro scale has some root and meaning in a micro scale with you. Ask yourself: what are you defending without second thought? What benefit is there to remaining divided?

...Control is certainly easier. With it, there is perhaps guaranteed outcomes. There’s no need to grow or expand. You’re entrenched in what you know, thinking it’s enough. Rigidity sets in. Inflexibility. You justify the occupation of the heart in so many ways.

But then love arises.

What swings to one extreme naturally swings to another until harmony is found. Love and harmony must fill the land. They must be strong enough to withstand the acid attacks of the deepest fears manifesting as righteousness.

That work only you can do. Strengthening the land, inundating the terrain with Light and entrenching it there, IS YOUR work.

And then, on its own, fear will come into its harmony. It cannot withstand the magnetic pull of the energy of Love radiating itself in the heart. Fear will find its Light despite itself. It will see its Divinity.

And you will know peace.