“We can honor each other and our life and the energy that sustains it by creating the space for each of us to live authentically in it.”
My visionary self sees a world in which we all belong —wholeheartedly.
That visionary guy is the one inside of me that writes poetry and stories of compassionate evolution. He dreams of empathetic societies, not of a world we blindly believe is “just the way it is,” rather one that embraces the principles of our common interdependence.
How we allow room for our visionary selves to actualize, in its most rudimentary proclamation is simply, we must want it.
Often we see the problem as something “other” or separate from our personal belief. That is to say perhaps we must recognize the problem differently. We might suggest seeing the problem or re-seeing the problem as basically, a lack of acknowledgement.
To me, it seems everybody knows there's “a” problem. The problem is the problem because everybody conjures there own source problem and we think it's always the “other."
In practical terms, what questions can we ask of our current world view —is it sustainable or even functional?
I hardly recognize our current collective manifestation of so many global crisis’s. A fast world becoming vastly faster, while less civil and a lot more angry.
Thomas Hübl, a contemporary spiritual teacher, recently came into my energy field. I find his views and passion for compassion a great comfort. A safe place to fall.
He said in one of his books, which I have not read yet, but heard during various trauma summits and seminars I’ve been taking:
“By the turning of this wheel, karmic suffering repeats, and trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next—until it finds space and presence and clarity; until it is owned so that it may be healed.”
― Thomas Hübl, Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
I agree.
Reflecting on my own journey, some 58 years of it, is a life filled with magnificent findings, great people, and sometimes unbearable pain. It is this recognition that has led me to my visionary self.
What I want to say is that we have the tools and the means and the people to transform our communities and countries. But, they are not of war, they are of love.
Some will say love is weak and compassion is self-defeating, but they have been misinformed, not because they haven’t tried to love but because our societal systems have failed us.
Love is the strongest power we know. It’s the energy which a mother can sense her child and the magic that a shaman heals the sick. It’s the energy that makes planets spin and dolphins swim.
Love is our life forms’ life line.
We all live a life of our choosing. We all die and we all, if we can breath deeply enough, find inherent in our own heart —our worthiness to live it.
Worthiness is ours because we are part of a world greater than our fears, judgements, and system-taught problems. We are of a world interconnected —interdependent on our compassionate collaboration.
My belief is in you my brothers and sisters. In your journey, and in your personal expression of what you see, sense, and feel in it.
For some, my words might seem grandiose, and to others, flat. I believe for more, they ring true and to a few, maybe a saving grace.
But these are not my words per se, they are ours.
If we can take that in, acknowledge our own belonging to a microcosm and macrocosm that in its best interest is trying to help us humans evolve,
even in our despair,
even in our conflict,
even in our diplomacy,
even in our freedom.
Then we can sense and feel in our hearts —a better world.
One that is one, not won but that we are in relationship with.
*image is courtesy of UnSplash. The Lærdal Tunnel, Norway —designed to provide a “refreshing view” and “break from routine.”