This Moment
How do you make sense of the world when it feels swallowed in hate and division? What is the answer for rising above the knee-jerk reactions and finding solace in the wisdom of something wholly divine. The universe itself. The rhythm and flow of chaos. The beauty and purity of chance.
This moment calls for awareness.
There is a need for love and compassion, for kindness and understanding. Calls for violence will be met with retaliation. Finger pointing with vitriol.
We do not need to validate why there is pain.
We ask for grace.
We allow grief.
We do not hinder the process, we open it.
For it is only when we are open to understanding the pain of others that we can begin to address our own.
This moment calls for awareness.
Slow down.
Breathe.
Seek not to shame others for their grievances, nor for their grief.
Look into the light of yourself and the answer is there.
It’s always there.
Sharing light is the only way to stop the darkness.
Hold space for the pain of others.
Even when they have caused you pain.
Even when it feels unjust. It is an illusion.
We cling to it.
It gives us a sense of meaning and purpose.
It is in the clinging too tightly to pain that suffering is born.
Suffering is a choice.
So choose light.
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Choose compassion.
Do not bend to the ignorance of the hive, but straighten to the wisdom of your true nature.
We can mend.
Not because we are wronged.
Not because justice will prevail.
Because we possess the will to understand. We can extend love and kindness, compassion and care- beyond when it suits our own purpose, beyond our own agenda. We can give grace to “them” even in the absence of their grace to “us”.
Because real suffering is in division.
True suffering comes when we categorize each other.
No one is more human than anyone else.
No one feels pain less because we deem them inferior.
If someone says something against you- let them.
If someone disagrees with who you are- let them.
If someone claims that you are wrong- let them.
It does not make it so.
Project not onto opponents what you believe they feel or think.
But rather, hold tightly to the truth of what they are…
Human beings.
Real love is accepting that you can love someone even when they don’t love you.
Real compassion is understanding someone, even when they can’t understand you.
Real kindness is showing it to someone even when they don’t show it to you.
If we perform love and compassion and kindness, yet practice division, and blame and anger, we reveal a falseness that becomes who we are. It is not the ones we accuse that become the injured party, it is us.
Love for real. Give compassion for real. Show kindness for real. For all.
We can mend.
We can mend with love, with compassion, and with kindness.
No greater weapons have ever existed for humanity.
