This is an invitation to look at everything around us as consciousness trying to emerge through us so that we can accelerate our relational evolution. I cannot pretend like that there is not a loving force that is working through the best and worst in each of us to wake us up so we can see both the forest and the trees and neither the forest or the trees. I’m not suggesting that I am fully awake all of the time. But my alarm clock is hella loud and goes off pretty frequently. And when I am awake, I see that we are often only seeing one side of the tip of the iceberg, when there is a whole other side as well as everything underneath and the ocean within which the iceberg floats, and the land that contains the oceans and so much more. All this to say, none of us gets all of everything about anything. And this is why we need to break through after this breakdown. Not all of us. But some of us have to take the hits and not hit back unless it forwards individual and collective liberation. In that case get to smacking. But only smack (figuratively) in love.
Deafening Silence
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Silence is not violence.
These words just rhyme
Violence is violence
And we see it all the time
Some of us say nothing
For a whole lot of reasons
Some because we’re cowards
Some because our words are out of season
And there’s a whole other reason
For our unspoken ploys
When everyone is screaming
We choose not to add to the noise
Instead we align with true peace
Working from the inside out
So that a single sentence can break through
The din of 10 million shouts
It’s a strategy too uncommon
But often the only one that works
Because the source of all the turmoil
Is often a battle of hurts versus hurts
Hurt People hurt people
Healed people heal
So the best we can do for all of us
Is to master how we feel
Controlled by our emotions
The good we mean to do’s distorted
Our goal is to bring about a better world
But our methods are contorted
Pain cannot undo one’s pain
Though it may keep it at bay
But this is only temporary
The pendulum will always swing the other way
And when it does, there will be a backlash
This is always the way it goes
Like peaks and troughs in an ocean
This is just the way it flows
It will be no other way
No matter how hard we try
Because just like if you try to push a wave
You efforts will always be denied
But do not be discouraged
Just pay attention to the patterns
In time you will be able to anticipate
The unfolding of all that matters
And once you see it, you can’t unsee it
The only response is to surrender
Accept your best was never good enough
So that a better way can enter
A Way that that acts from Stillness
That speaks from the cataclysmic Sound of Silence
The Undoing that undoes all that humans contrived
Until there is no such thing as violence
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