Personal Meditation no. 208

“It may not be your fault but it is still your problem.”

Embrace the Within.

A lot of folks are still looking for hope in this world. And looking around at other folks to try and find a solution, an answer, any sort of peace is just a pointless activity. Look at how we respond to obstacles and challenges in our lives. We want to fight them. We are a people filled with violence. And there is no opportunity that folks will find a solution to that problem while looking to other violent folks. It is such a redundant process that I no longer get angry, see violence in my own heart, at the process getting repeated. I know what the next steps are because I have seen this movie before. And if we just make enough laws, then everything will be perfect.

That’s the human solution to everything. Add a little more government to any problem and then it is no longer my problem. BUT the truth is that everything is my problem. Everything is your problem. And you are not going to find the solution in laws, in governments, or in people.

I heard someone being interviewed about this recent act of violence and they said we don’t have a mental health problem in America. Can you imagine that? People acting violently is not a mental health problem. Folks finding the use of violence as a solution to their problems is so normalized in this country that it is not a mental health problem? I don’t know about you BUT if there isn’t something wrong with the brains of folks then there is a deeper problem of health here. Maybe they aren’t physically or mentally ill, however, their spirit is most definitely sick. The soul of this society is cancerous. And we get to decide if that soul gets to continue in its current state or if we are going to get it healthy.

And that choice to get healthy never comes from government. That choice to get healthy is not going to come through more laws. That choice to get healthy is going to take a change in our own spirits. The soul of this country is sick because we are making it sick. Our choices influence the soul of what is around us. It’s your fault, it’s my fault, it is all our fault that society is sick. And we’re not going to get anywhere acting the way we always do.

We’ll go into political party mode, echo chamber mode, and fighting and arguing and choosing violence mode. BUT we won’t go into healthy mode. We won’t go into love and compassion and joy and abundance mode. We will choose the worst way to respond to each other and then wonder why the world is the way it is.

I was talking to my father last night and he is thoroughly exhausted with the way folks are in this world. And I am about half way there with him. I do get frustrated with the sickness I see around me. This preoccupation with violence as a solution to all our problems. In the liberty community, most folks want to pick up a gun and fight the folks in government BUT they don’t want to make themselves better people. Normies want to riot and march and shout and argue with other normies BUT they don’t want to get healthy. Party lines are not where violence ends. Folks are violent despite what flavor of snow they choose to embrace. BUT folks don’t want to make the tough choices. Folks don’t want to look inside and realize that they are wrong. We don’t want to admit that we are the ones choosing violence. We don’t want to admit that inside we are capable of things just as horrible as what we hear or read about in the news. BUT we are. We are capable of such horribly destructive actions to ourselves and others. Take a brief look at human history that starts with a brother killing a brother and gets us where we are today.

We are the problem. And only we can work on changing our spirit before we can work on changing the spirit of a community, a city, a county, a state, a nation, or a world. It all starts with changing how we embrace the world around us. Are we looking for conflict and division or are we looking to really make things better? Am I looking for a fight or am I looking for peace? Am I looking at my own self interests or am I being a caretaker of this planet? When we start answering those questions honestly. When we start making a change in our spirit. When we start being better people personally. We might then see the world around us change. Until then, the soul of this nation will die.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin

Personal Meditation no. 207

"Everyone chooses their level of involvement. We might share the same place BUT that does not mean we share the same space. Not everyone in the congregation is Christian."

Embrace the Within.

You can want the best for folks BUT that does not mean they want the best for themselves. Everyone gets to choose their own level of involvement in life. I can’t choose that for you as much as I can choose when you are going to awake. I can’t even choose if you are going to awake. I can’t choose that either. I do get to choose my level of involvement in my own life daily. And you get to choose that for yourself as well.

Those fourteen days ago seem like years now. I barely know that person anymore that was struggling every day to get moving with caffeine and nicotine so he could make the daily commute to and from work just to get back home and really accomplish nothing. All I did was consume. I was one giant Pacman. One ball of consumption. I produced very little and what I did produce was nowhere near the quality I could achieve and do achieve today. I was lucky I was smart enough to survive in that lifestyle.

These past fourteen days I see a lot more joy in watching things grow. And now that I have hit a groove, I am starting to get worried about stagnation. Am I going to just find a new rut to put myself into each day. It may be a healthy routine of accomplishment BUT is a new well-worn routine that is not typically comfortable any different than any other rut I was in before?

And I think I can answer that this routine, this rut, this well-worn path is never without it’s new challenges and obstacles and change. It isn’t like the plantation is just going to run itself well. Without my work to combat the entropic nature of the system, I would have chaos all around me. And as I work every day in this space, I am trying to get things in order and alignment.

And that is kind of what we all should be working toward. Getting aligned and ordered with what is natural. Being in line with what our lives are meant to be. And for some of us that means changing a destructive habit for a constructive habit. For some of us that means getting healthy. It can mean so many things for both you and me. BUT we all get to choose whether we are involved in making that change. We all get to choose if we’re going to be aligned. We all get to choose our level of involvement in our own lives. We can make the change or not. There is no one else to blame BUT ourselves.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin