Blessings on your journey, may light, love, brightness surround you, Dina, and those you touch.
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I pray daily, that we, as a people, will not fall into the 'us-versus-them,' 'good-versus-evil' trap.
The word 'evil' for me, brings forth the notion of separation, of 'other-ness' ~ for me those are Samsara, illusion, maya. They speak not of love. In truth, we are One. We are Love. That is our nature. It seems to me, we must hold onto this truth when our wounded brothers and sisters forget, when the illusion becomes as real to them.
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From "Conversations with God: Book 1" {Neale Donald Walsch):
[We are ALL responsible]
"You are all at root cause for the conditions which exist which create in the robber the desire, or the perceived need to steal. You have all created the consciousness which makes rape possible. It is when you see in yourself that which caused the crime, that you begin, at last, to heal the condition from which it sprang.
Book 1
"Hitler went to heaven for these reasons:
There is no hell, so there is no place else for him to go.
His actions were what you would call mistakes ~ the actions of an unevolved being ~ and mistakes are not punishable by condemnation, but dealt with by providing the change for correction, for evolution.
"The mistakes Hitler made did no harm or damage to those whose deaths he caused. Those souls were released from their earthly bondage, like butterflies emerging from a cocoon.
"The people who were left behind mourn those deaths only because they do not know of the joy into which those souls entered. No one who has experienced death ever mourns the death of anyone."
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[I beg forgiveness if this frame is upsetting to anyone reading. But it seems wiser, spacious, more forgiving and moves me off the broken path of hate, anger, and fancied righteousness. Only in the arms of compassion can I find my Highest Self, my kindest intent.]
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It seems to me, we must own are part. In our day-to-day encounters, in the words we use [gentle? uplifting? building up? tearing down? harsh? belittling?], in the light we bring in the spaces the greet us each new day. Do we bring Reiki's kind intent to each encounter?
Let us send floods of creative healing light to all brothers and sisters in torment, in woundedness. Let us, as a great people, ask ourselves hard questions about who we have been, who we are, who we would be.
Let us use and dialogue toward our greatest wisdom, tap into our spiritual traditions, and examine who we are.
Let us take responsibility for our part:
Have we chased profits or tried to build relationship across all lands and nations? Has Love directed all actions?
Have we taken sides ~ sold arms ~ in the conflicts of our brothers and sisters, or have we sought to bring understanding, to promote lasting reconciliation?
Have we been good global stewards or have we consumed more than our share of world resources?
Have we thought ourselves immune from struggle? Impenetrable?
Do we think our children more valuable, more beautiful, more worthy, than those in war-torn countries who have lived in fear for decades or more? Can we listen more carefully, more diligently, to our brothers and sisters around the world in pain? Can we try on their shoes? Read the sacred texts of our Islamic and Moslem brothers and sisters? Try on the lens through which they see us?
How closely have we matched our ideals of freedom, comradeship and charity? Can we extend brotherhood to foreign lands, learn of cultures, faiths, and languages unknown ~ deeply stretch our understanding ~ and spread love collectively in ways we would never had thought possible?
Yes, for Love is who we are.
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"All of us
[from every faith, culture, nation and way of being],
as we gaze on Love's glory with unveiled faces,
are being transformed
from glory to glory
into Love's very image." [adapted: The letters of St. Paul]
May Love transform.
Blessed be.
Beau
