I really don’t know which runs deeper: the rage…. the outrage… the grief…. the sadness that the event took place.
The disgust at the corruption… the greed… the cowardice… the betrayal… the indifference… the deception of those in political, governmental and corporate power who allow it to be so.
Hope lies in the powerful, raised voices of the young; of those whose future is at stake, who are choosing to take control of their own lives since we have so frequently and painfully failed them. Theirs are the voices that will be The Call that will fill the streets and make it impossible for the corrupt to hide. Theirs are the voices that will break the deep trance of helplessness; of appropriate, reasonable, logical response to all that is completely inappropriate, unreasonable, illogical… and criminal.
I am profoundly moved by the depth of their pain, from which is rising the strength of their determination, and the power of their individual and collective voices. They can indeed, shape the world they desire in their unwillingness to continue to be the voiceless lambs to the slaughter.
Below are some thoughts that came to mind as I absorbed that which is unfolding before our very eyes. They form part of a blog post from September 2016. For me, these young women and men are the epitome of what is meaningful at this place/time in the unfolding of our shared history, as a species.
“There are no absolutes… no things that stand alone in isolation of anything else. Everything is relative to every other thing; and all of it is nonetheless part of the same expression of Life… of Being. That we do not recognize it does not make it any less all an expression of the same Whole. The context we claim for ourselves will dictate how we interpret that relativity.
After turning eyes in to my Self for these last 10 days, I now come to a close of a cycle that will call to me to turn eyes outwardly, to other than Self. Doing so allows me to now test drive my discoveries. It also allows me to now begin to pay attention to the degree to which the conversations I am having ‘outside’ with others match the ones that I am having ‘inside’, with my Self. The great force to manifest and create lies in their alignment. The greater the alignment, the more quickly the manifestation occurs.
Perspective frames selection. The bigger my perspective, the more expansive and ’tactile’ my choices become; the more able a choice becomes to touch and affect something else. In my courage to reveal, Life gains momentum in the power of contagion. Life is a virus that can be of the greatest virulence, if I allow it to be so. I have often intentionally chosen that my perspective remains small to ensure that my range of resulting choices is small, allowing for a sense of control; for a sense of incremental discovery/growth/change. In those moments, I have lost my capacity to trust in the majesty of who I am intended to be.
It has long and often been said : “The point of power is in the present.” For me to know that… in the very tissue of my being… I must live it. Staying in the now will, without doubt or hesitation, produce physical sensations in the body. Choosing to invite and allow them; choosing to relax, open and make way for the wave of intelligence that is seeking to communicate, will change my life… and my world. This requires that I come to trust my own inner cues…and allow them to lead, without words, without content, without collusion or agreement from any other. In that moment of the ’now’, I stand alone.
The voice in my head says:
* DARE to press against your own conventions; against your own untested ’truths’, absorbed from others rather than claimed in the Fire of your own discovery.
* RISK being wrong; not knowing; not fitting in; being dismissed, isolated, mocked, ridiculed. Staying within the domain of acceptance by others may bring momentary comfort and it is like pushing the delete button on your unique expression of Self; on your curiosity and your willingness to engage authentically.
* INVITE and ALLOW: Embrace it all and hold to nothing! Like water through a screen door, allow what draws your attention to move through you and awaken more of the fullness of who you are.
Dare. Risk. Invite. Allow. These will combine to create the Space that is essential for our evolution; will propel the Movement from within that redefines who we are willing to become; and will create the Flow of Being that is required to manifest from the very core.”
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