Dear friends,
Marcus Aurelius: “take care that you don’t treat humanity the way it treats human beings.”
It is incredulous to me that human beings, the expression of the Spirit, are daily maligned, slaughtered, robbed, starved and more by other human beings, usually acting as “humanity” or some version of superiority. The cultish behavior of so many, the willingness to surrender one’s better self, the mob mentality, is running rampant in this world. Yet, we must have faith in humanity to awaken to its higher inclinations; to love, to unite with, to bless, to prosper together, to celebrate this Life we are living.
We must be the champions of human potential; insist on it, speak about it, stand up for it and act as if it were so. Always, the spiritual approach to lasting change is to begin with oneself. How are we representing humanity, the expression of the Spirit? Are we railing against what we see or are we seeing through it to the greater possibility within it?
Look for the Good and Praise it. That is from long ago but very apt today. Be for humanity, not against it. Be for freedom and peace, not merely against war. Be for equality and justice, not simply angry about the inequality and injustice we can identify. Our attention must be on what we know is possible and to call it out with our own behavior. We model what we wish to increase in our world. How else could it happen? To paraphrase another old saying “consciousness is contagious.”
Stay tuned in,
