Beautiful is not Often Recognized as an Event Like This

Has the Universe of Surprises ever dawned on you in the midst of spinning your emotional wheels? Here we are: we are trying to get something accomplished, something falls through, somethings come up for someone else, and we, as spiritual warriors, start to wonder what it means. What is the “Universe” trying to tell us? Or perhaps, what are we telling ourselves and others? What is key to cracking the code is Generosity.

Giving and receiving breaks barriers.

The point to life is to live in relationship, and there is never a limit to that unless when we think there is.

There’s always a more to what we know about each other, and we can get comfortable without knowing there is richness to every person. So reactions to people cause us to grow. Take every opportunity to serve and learn the fellow person around you.

It’s really about not accepting shallow judgments and allowing the negative to take over. How much judgment there is in the mind is at times unavoidable. Do we as a people have anger lingering perpetually inside of us? It’s the last emotion we allow ourselves to talk about because it feels unsafe and has consequences within our relationships. It’s seen as the dividing factor between us. Our minds can become consumed by resentment. There is a convenient adrenalin in holding an enemy image in the mind that fosters blame and fosters a reason to react. Emotional survival and the grapple for safety are hard impulses to overcome when anger has been buried under the rug for so long. The reason may lie in not asking the fellow person around you what they feel and how they are affected, in general. Decisions are made past that concern, decisions are likely executed from inside an insulated world. Diversity challenges us to overcome our own internalized phobia of ourselves around the different. Diversity is the only fact of existence. How can we remain cut off in life without anger imploding individually and hence collectively?

If you want to change the World, explore the opportunity for opening to a hard talk with someone.

If we can sit in our discomfort, willingly balanced uneasily on tinder hooks for the time it lasts, you’ll gain so much stamina to face reality and become a person that others can go to. What is painful is the person who can’t face their reality and must live dissociated from the truth of who they really are and their effect on others. A lot of us who know these persons can be protecting them from facing their pain, thus enabling their delusion to continue. I think a policy of telling the truth and exercising boundaries as a skilled person is extremely beneficial for the village.

How do we reclaim the village?

Our potential for suffering can be minimized by expressing ourselves and being listened to, and in turn, making the effort for others to be heard without reacting. The root of the village’s existence lay in the cause of anyone suppressed, the working poor and the destitute all over the world, the stigmatized, the spiritually impoverished. They themselves, the conversations of enemy images always literally transforming to an image of them that is free. Who doesn’t break the law but cajoles it?

I’ve been loved. I must give back.

We can call ourselves to the empathic give to action; To practice opening your call to expression and expanding your emotional literacy through the effort. Self-empathy is allowing space for this ambitious flower to open. Think of it as you’re having tea with your mind and a listen to your heart. You’re inviting a friend to sit with you and talk next. Letting the creative perceptions, thoughts, words, emotions divested from prayer engage in rapport building with those you normally avoid because of previous conflict. Trust and live the process out. Sustain communication as long as you can. Withstand awkwardness and embarrassment, if you must! You are putting feelings into words, and actually causing a rumble in the Universe of Surprises yourself. Humble beginnings and owning them as an expert. And giving of yourself with concerted effort. The result is the regenerated feeling of sovereignty over your own inner being, respect for the other’s opinion and feelings, whether you agree with them or not, and a reverence for your inner self and that of the other’s.

“Beautiful is not often recognized as an event like this.”

Natalie Botero, M.A.