I may be enthrallingly enthusiastic and supportive of others’ dreams (if you know me you know that I should be charging life coach fees) but it creates a bright and beautiful glow to do so. The flow we facilitate with each other is the flow we also facilitate for ourselves.
Let’s believe in ourselves and see the best in each other. From deep in our hearts, from our minds high. The wind we put in each other’s sails in the wind we put in our own sails. The energetic waves take on a life of their own. Let’s sail far. Let’s know ourselves intimately within. Let’s sail into the vast expanse. The adventure of existence, breathed in every precious moment.
Why, aren’t you a beautiful bunch of flowers
I don’t like gossiping about others behind their back for the same reason I wouldn’t criticize someone else’s dreams or creations. Because it’s dark and weak to do so. It’s an attempt, born in insecurity and fear, to create a position of dominance over someone else. It creates a dagger when we create a dagger to stab in someone else’s back. That dagger wasn’t there before. It can and probably will be pulled out some day, by someone, and used against us. The thing is we’re already used to attacking ourselves.
It can take a cold splash of water to sober up. We each have the power to stop the patterns in ourselves with the power of awareness. A strong inner stance is the best way to overcome insecurity and evaporate the fears. When it comes to inner standing all one needs to know is ONE THING. ONE THING when facing any self destructive pattern or behavior that tears others down. ONE THING and repeat it often, “I am better than this”
When you realize that, you’ll find all the gold. The golden rule according to common understanding is off. We might all want to be treated in different ways so to assume our ways over others is arrogant and pushy. It is not truly listening.
Author’s note: The irony of togetherness is that it requires a deep sense of individuality in the self to witness and appreciate (rather than depreciate). A deep still center in which to listen from. To be apart from… yet at the same time be part of everything and let everything be part of you. To hear all.
Contrary to popular belief, short sighted greed is not the most creative destination of the self, free will, individuality, all the aspects of SELF that we demonize (or religions demonize, and we follow by engaging in subtractive thinking that loses touch with real higher power, the source in all, the absolute and infinity). The self developed one gains something more. They gain witness to creation. Learning to become aware is the first step to becoming a better co-creator, more able to witness the beauty. By witnessing it we play a part.
The “golden rule” as commonly understood is not a suggestion of observance but of action based upon one’s own preferences without observance of the other person. A lack of awareness leads to fool’s gold.
The true golden rule is “Do not do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you”.
Only in a place of inner standing and awareness can we each fully realize what that means.
It doesn’t mean that others will never be able to do crappy things to you. It means that you will be less likely to become entangled if they try. It means that you’ll be able to face yourself in the mirror more clearly. It means you’ll be able to breathe more freely.
It is only the bright examples that others make that can motivate us to find our own. We need each other to shine, to inspire and even provoke each other, otherwise we forget that we can shine too.
At the end of the day it’s about the beds we make for ourselves. It’s the self relationship and whether or not we can stand ourselves.
So stand tall. Stand strong, within.
