THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE MANKIND
No doubts we are, we exist…and we
are all different, each one of us, I mean humankind, is a masterpiece created by the creator regardless of all kind of
distractors. Believe it or not, we are
the children of the highest intelligence…..see how you think or move. As
its children, we can be what we want to be, if we believe in caring and loving parenting…that
is what we have. We are worthy and deserve all that we desire, and goodies. On
the contrary, if we are stuck with the idea of carelessness and worthlessness, we
carry all those limitative ideas of lack, fear, useless, etc. all those false
ideas that do not mean who we are but some other’s ideas based on some kind of
actions or relationships, not the reality of the person. The ghost in my mind, “you
can even cut the plant right”, the way my mom wanted, is fading with the help
of my awareness… I wish I knew by then that words can affect you if you allow
it to happen. Besides…so what, that is not who I am…It does not matter if I can
do it or not…it is not me, I was born to do something different than that. I’m
not blaming her; she did the best from what she had, knew and was in life.
I wonder if you have ever felt
really angry at someone and wished to see this person dead…When I see someone
in jail, I am grateful that nothing happened when I had that extreme anger many
years ago. Every one of us is a potential criminal and a potential saint. It takes
a fraction of a second to do something we could deeply regret for life. In
those days with no much experience I can say it was a matter of “luck” but now
I know I would be able to control any sign of discomfort by responding not
reacting, being slow to judge and quick to praise.
Practicing gratitude for even the
smallest things brings more and more of what we are grateful for. Stop
reading….this is not as important as begin to be grateful for one small thing. Blessing
everything and everyone, even what we call bad things prepare us for better
ones, teach us some lesson, we may not see the benefits at the moment. The positive attitude that comes out from
being grateful is what I consider the essence of experiencing life with all
that it brings with no judgments and no pretentions to change it. Even
suffering, be able to take it as a new lesson to test sensitivity around us and
grow stronger in unity and acceptance.
I noticed “my” (I’m using my for
the purpose of understanding but for sure I know it is not mine) habit of
turning the television on or having some noise around me. I realized I was kind
of afraid to be alone and in silence just be. It is worth the time to let our own ideas to flourish. Not only
that, but I suggest to have a conscious decision if watching television, to avoid the effects of what you don’t want to
hear unconsciously turning you out of what you really want. Knowing that we
are more than flesh and trusting our intuitions, meditation (not necessarily
transcendental nor deep but any, even mindless observation) is a tool that facilitates
the state of mind open to ideas, solutions for our problems and somehow allows
our needs to show up in our lives.
What if everyone acknowledges
that each one of us sees things differently, perceives according to his
previous parameters. Nor even the colors are the same for all. What if everyone
behaves as if there were more than one point of view in any situation? Some
people speak for others, put words in others feelings. When I lost my car in an
accident, some people not only expected me to say “how bad I missed it” but
even put words of sadness and sorrow to my experience. We can allow people to guide
our feelings or we can “feel” the truth for ourselves. The weather is a
constant topic of conversation around; I have to agree with people, or to make
an “arrogant” of myself if I truly express what I think. I think that there is
not bad weather but wrong inappropriate clothing. Anyway, the truth may be problematic at this point because perception is
different for everyone.
These days’ news about young
millionaires, women millionaires, generous and good people millionaires,
hardworking millionaires, may raise the question about stereotypes. Some are
facts that help to uncover the truth
and to break with old false ideas that may
stop us from having our desires. Setting ourselves free from ideas of
scarcity and worthlessness is to see reality when opened to all possibilities
and understanding that the supply is somewhere, like an apple tree we don’t
always see the fruit but soon they will grow. There are opportunities for
everyone without limitations; we just have to be able to “see” and allow them in our lives.
The truth that sets us free has
to be revealed. We need to install a new
updated program based on facts, zero traditions, misconceptions, prejudices, preconceptions,
or stereotypes. Being aware we observe those habits that show up in our
daily living and we may keep, maintaining “normality” around us, or we may
remove ourselves from those conversations or situations in which clarifying the
facts would result on hurting others’ feelings and see ourselves as asocial. As
in the topic mentioned before, I love snow, the cold days and never agree it is
“bad weather”. Once in a while I feel like clarifying the idea at least by saying:
It is what it is! Unless you have a firm decision, a strong desire, and you
remember it at every segment in your life, you have a good probability of being
guided away from your desire because “that’s life” and the norm is to create by
default so we don’t annoy but follow the crowd. Some conversations rule over
assumptions or generalizations and a tendency to take things personally.
Nothing has the power to affect us neither for good nor for bad. Only when we give things or ideas the power
we choose to give them, we allow them to have an effect in our lives. Life
is what it is. I dream with John Lennon’s: no
countries…no religion…no need for greed or hunger…a brotherhood of man… as One,
sharing the entire world…oh oh…you may say I’m a dreamer….. I can only fuel
that energy to reach and fill bigger spaces. I can only remind humans that life
is not a matter of struggle for survival. There’s no such a thing as struggle
for life, but cooperation with life. By now I just acknowledge how a small sign
of praise can help and empower people; how listening is a quality of the
understanding and living that shows up in cared and loved ones and, that I have
the option of being quite understanding by “wearing some other’s shoes” and
treat everybody and everyone as a brother or a sister.
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