We are en route of becoming —the beloved of our tribe.
All of us, humanitarians reaching to cherish and be cherished as part of some great compassionate reset. An empathetic reset.
Many sense a need to change course, to walk on new paths, maybe create unknown paths where synchronicity drops a stranger into our energy field and we gain new perspective. It feels like the world is spinning out of control, it’s shaking us up to become something we’ve dreamed about but never believed deeply enough we could become it.
There are many “experts” in fields of politics and medicine and theology, even art and the art of success. Perhaps too many sales on behalf of experts has been one of our many roadblocks toward a peaceable world.
Could it be, instead of more organized religion, we are in greater need of organized wisdom?
What?
Inquiry.
The truths of religions are thousands of years old. They hold techniques and structure, offer resilience and perhaps the ease to some suffering and a soft place to fall. Yet, at the hands of mainly men, these great teachings became tools to the white demigods of dollar bills.
A deeper history is within our grasp.
Our bodies hold the most information, millennia of intergenerational knowledge. Ancient wisdom flows in bone and blood. Our muscle we too often beat up carries ancient wars closer to the surface of our being while that wisdom so desperately seeking today’s light remains seeking.
We remain seeking.
Under that pain, if we dare entertain, is the mother of reinvention.
A mother’s love, a father’s love, the love for flora or fauna or history —that’s the stimulus that thrusts us forward into a future where all can fly. It’s the seed that sprouts socio-economic justice and permaculture self-sustaining. It’s that which is our teacher, our leader and guiding principle.
Whenever love sits well on our nervous systems, tranquility prevails.
It has never been man.
Maya Angelou said when you learn, teach.
Dr. Angelou’s statement is profound. It’s significant and brief and succinct —brilliant in its simplicity. That’s how wisdom speaks. It penetrates the soul, like an A-minor chord, Galápagos, or Michelangelo.
Our ancestors sat by campfires telling intergenerational stories. That’s how they transferred knowledge.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono gave us Imagine.
Jesus’s core teachings, Brotherly Love.
The point is the most revolutionary teaching has always been brief —simply stated.
That does not imply easy to learn or apply.
A new path, a compassionate reset, an empathetic reset.
Yes, looking at who and what we are becoming, as in any noble striving, is to see first in vision what we wish the outcome to be. Today we have the time to step back and evaluate. That won’t always be the case. In physics, they say it takes three reactions to create critical mass —the theory of self sustaining momentum. This is as true to our aggression and heating planet as it is to our vision of a more equitable world.
Imperative, precious, to see clearly today. What alterations to our path must we consider to ensure the healthiest outcome?
Our wisdom is pre-organized and yet we must reorganize our thoughts and desires from the influences that have distorted them.
If we want a new world, we must create it.
It’s a dedication for sure and I believe our common calling to stabilize a chaotic, angry and aggressive world. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said that aggression would be the downfall of civilization, but that empathy could course-correct it.
Can we agree?
To change course, right our ship, align with our North Star?
Right now, most of us really don’t hear each other. We’re caught between giant corporations and political parties. We’re caught between religious beliefs and fundamental human rights. Toss in a heating planet and we are living the perfect storm.
Advantageous for healing is to remember who we are.
Listen to each other’s story.
Imagine all we can be.
Use life’s best hack, brotherly love.
Wisdom is always simply stated.
It’s always the work that goes into application that is always layered and complicated.
But, that’s never stopped us before.
From overcoming obstacles, hatred, oppression or physical limitation, we can create a better world by creating better selves and by holding our better selves to a higher vision.
Love is the mother of reinvention. Let’s show each other who we are.
Don’t be afraid of it, embrace it.
Because, we are the cherished beloveds interconnected —we are each others guardian angels on this living planet with blue-green waters clean. We are the world of flora and fauna supreme. All of us!
As a global thinking society, we have the means and the skill to lift each other. We can turn our dreams into reality.
We can become more vocal without becoming more angry.
And when society has room for all our voices, we can share them and find the answers to all our questions in each.
ABOUT Richard Silvia/Rick Eva
Author, Artist, Activist, Singer-Songwriter, founder of YesRising Ventures —a conversation of love and space for global thinking. Creator of Teach Love MultiMedia Movement to inspire Love, Possibility, and Inclusiveness through the ministry of words, music and art.
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