Peace Be With You

Every moment that we spend lifting ourselves up we are lifting up all of humanity.
                                                                                                         -- Gregory Tool


How does that comment sit with you? Does it resonate? Confuse you? Excite you? Or do you struggle with it?

When I heard author and spiritual leader, Gregory Tool, say this I have to say that it thrilled me. For a very long time I have believed in it, and so to hear it confirmed by someone in the business really nailed it for me. I wanted to stand up and shout ‘Amen, brother!’

Who we are and what we send out into the ether is so very urgent in these turbulent times. Is there anyone alive on the planet right now whose life is not being challenged in some manner? I believe that we are all being asked to step up and show up. Show what we’re made of. This is the Chinese lunar Year of the Fire Monkey, and there’s a lot of monkey business going on.

Even if challenge is not breaking into our personal circle, we cannot sit by and see hundreds of thousands of destitute families wandering the Earth, or terrorist attacks in Europe, or atrocities in the Middle East without cringing and feeling we must help, but without knowing how.

And when we hear about the latest carnage, we are quite understandably outraged. It takes away our breath, and our faith in humanity. We weep for the victims and rage at the perpetrators. And that's a problem. Our rage at and judgment of those who could do such a barbaric thing is perpetuating the darkness and hate. We are meeting violence with violence and aligning with what we are judging.

So stop.   Ask: What is this calling me to?

It’s calling us for sure, but not to violence and separation. We are being asked to look more deeply into ourselves and to question: How can I bring more love, peace and compassion into the world at a fundamental level? How is this calling me to grow and evolve? Violence for violence is not it. That does just the opposite.

So how DO we bring about more love, more ‘seeing’ of people?

I look into the eyes of another. Not everyone is comfortable with it but if you smile at the same time it can be almost irresistible because we want to be seen. We want to be seen as the divine beings that we, at some subconscious level, know that we are.

And when anyone is brave enough to look into the eyes of another they can see and feel the divinity, the connectedness, the oneness that unites us, even if it’s only fleeting.

There is a frequency that we emit.  If a partner feels totally loved as she/he goes out into the world each day, she emits that and it expands into the world with a ripple effect that keeps on going and giving.  This is no small thing.

When I sit in morning or evening meditation, I send love and blessings to not only the Earth and her species, but to those that we love to hate, because when we hate them we are solidifying that cement wall that they have built around themselves. When we bless them and send love and peace, we help to melt the wall of hate.   Darkness cannot penetrate darkness; only light can do that.

Take a moment and reach down deep for that light and love in your heart, then beam it out into the world as a blessing and see how much better you feel.

Every meditation, every healing, every moment that we spend lifting ourselves, we lift the collective. We are beings of light and we can lift up everyone we encounter.   Every healing we do is a ripple out into the world. We simply take negativity off the table.

Forgiveness, love, joy, and peace is awakening the planet, not negativity and judgment. We must consciously choose.

This is how we follow a conscious spiritual path, and it’s one of the most exciting things we can do.

This week there has been exponential light directed into our planet. The equinox, the lunar eclipse, both occurring just on the cusp of Easter are all giving us an opportunity for spiritual growth. If possible find a few quiet moments and sit in peace, channeling peace, and light and love, and compassion to all beings, omitting no one and nothing.

It matters. It’s the living example of “Peace begins with me”.

“Lord, make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred
Let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
Where there is sadness, joy. . . .”