Yes isn't it funny how we perceive cruelty to animals as wrong and horrible but when an animal kills another animal, we might not like it but somehow it is "natural"? I'm not completely through with this yet
Yes, Love is a feeling. And, much more. How beautifully, Joan, you point to Love as a view and perspective, an understanding, an intention, a disposition. We don't love in order to be free and happy, but knowing that love is All, we find ourSelves free and happy.
When politics comes up, or activist friends who see as "critically important" some protest for social justice, I have been accused of being "the worst kind" of apolitical person, someone who apparently "doesn't care." However, like you, from the place where I am, all this only promotes division, an us and them, a separation where none really exists. It is part of the drama of duality, not reality. From a child, I have known that all this only perpetuates the harm it aims to cure, that it is, at its core, what is known as hypocritical, self-contradictory, and simply can't be any other way. Yet this is a difficult position to be in when in the company of others, and when remaining silent is perceived as uncaring, along with anything else one could say that shows why one can't stand "with." Of course, we all know the saying that if you're not with, you're against! What do you do, Joan, if/when you find yourself in this kind of situation, with well meaning political activist friends who are trying to "save the world" and assume that you are with them?
I didn't see this late comment and question until several months later in October when you brought it to my attention, so I will reply there, on the post titled "War" from October 10, 2023.
"This longing to come Home is at the root of all our addictions and compulsions and all our acts of cruelty" ..... so true. This riddle comes up every single day in my life
stay open, awake, loving, meeting the moment with compassion, acceptance and inner spaciousness.
Life is Love/Love is Life
Now..just This..Perfect/complete as IT is❣🙏
Yes! And thank you again for the exchanges that grew into this article. 🙏
❣love reading your words..ty🌹
Wonderful and so true.
Yes isn't it funny how we perceive cruelty to animals as wrong and horrible but when an animal kills another animal, we might not like it but somehow it is "natural"? I'm not completely through with this yet
Yes, Love is a feeling. And, much more. How beautifully, Joan, you point to Love as a view and perspective, an understanding, an intention, a disposition. We don't love in order to be free and happy, but knowing that love is All, we find ourSelves free and happy.
Love u ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🌈💜🍓
When politics comes up, or activist friends who see as "critically important" some protest for social justice, I have been accused of being "the worst kind" of apolitical person, someone who apparently "doesn't care." However, like you, from the place where I am, all this only promotes division, an us and them, a separation where none really exists. It is part of the drama of duality, not reality. From a child, I have known that all this only perpetuates the harm it aims to cure, that it is, at its core, what is known as hypocritical, self-contradictory, and simply can't be any other way. Yet this is a difficult position to be in when in the company of others, and when remaining silent is perceived as uncaring, along with anything else one could say that shows why one can't stand "with." Of course, we all know the saying that if you're not with, you're against! What do you do, Joan, if/when you find yourself in this kind of situation, with well meaning political activist friends who are trying to "save the world" and assume that you are with them?
I didn't see this late comment and question until several months later in October when you brought it to my attention, so I will reply there, on the post titled "War" from October 10, 2023.
"This longing to come Home is at the root of all our addictions and compulsions and all our acts of cruelty" ..... so true. This riddle comes up every single day in my life