If you were ranking noble human qualities, where would kindness rank? In some ways, it doesn’t really matter. It’s how such things work in our personal lives that matter. I happen to value kindness.
Beyond that, though, no matter how anyone values high frequency qualities, they have profound effects on our lives, on our race, on our world. Fortunately, some people live such concepts as kindness, exude them, give a human face to them. Such a girl was Rachel Joy Scott. Do you know her? She was the first victim at the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999. Her killer did not know the energy he unleashed that day, the energy of an eternal soul who had come here to experience life and to allow life to experience her. Early on she lived her Heart. I believe that from the snippets of writing in her journals and an essay, oh, and on the back of a dresser. Yes, a dresser. When Rachel was thirteen years old, Rachel drew an outline of both of her hands on the back of her dresser and wrote these words within them: “These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people’s hearts.” After her death, her family began a program that has reached a couple million people around the world. The family didn’t have to invent anything, any words. They used Rachel’s words. I see another bit of evidence she knew and lived her Heart from a paper in which she penned these words: “Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.” Know yourself, discover Heart and your personal truth and live it. Those are Heart-words. Rachel’s truth had much to do with kindness. She wanted to touch millions of lives through kindness. That’s Heart-Purpose. How? I compare it to the way multitudes of others plan to make life meaningful through their skills, talents, abilities, inventions, money, and many more things, that may be Ego or Heart driven. Kindness, though? To know and state as a done deal that millions of lives would be touched by kindness? Wow! I know this was her Vision: “I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.” Purpose and Vision. But how would she do that? It truly doesn’t take much effort to be kind, but it does to consider the ways it might be expressed. Rachel did just that. When her family began Rachel’s Challenge (easy to find the website), they used Rachel’s own words once again, basically an analysis and application of how to be kind to others and Self. When schools participate in the program, in each classroom and many hallways hang the five challenges Rachel set for herself and hoped for others. 1. Eliminate prejudice — look for the best in others. 2. Dare to dream — set goals and keep a journal. 3. Choose positive influences — input determines output.. 4. Kind words — little acts of kindness. 5. Start a chain reaction. Rachel used this as an action plan, her Mission. She knew her connection with eternal Spirit through her christian faith, and it was real for her, that connection. Her Heart mediated, and somehow, I do not fully understand, a few hours before her death, she drew a picture in her journal of an eye shedding thirteen tears that fall on a rose and continue as thirteen drops of blood. Thirteen people were shot that day before Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed themselves. How did she know that? What caused her to draw that? Why would she? To let those who would look see that living Heart gives connections that those like the Ego-bound killers know nothing of. When we won’t hear Heart and consciously turn to our own Spirit-Self to engage that operating system, we continue to run on Ego. It can take multitudes of forms, and the worst ones are those expressed by the two murderers that day — and those that destroy, those in league with that Spirit, those who bomb and slaughter and rape and kill innocents. Do you know how that all begins? I will tell you. It is seen in boys like the two at Columbine who blame everyone else for their feelings. Oh, mark my words, those who bully such bear their own responsibility; however, allow this story to be a check for yourself. No matter how you are treated by everyday people who are living their Ego-driven lives like most do, ultimately, we receive and transmit all the energies that come our way. If you feel like it’s this person’s fault or that person was mean to me so I can be mean back, be negative back because they deserve it — if you think like that, you are thinking pure, unadulterated Ego. You are not and never will be Heart-justified in exacting destructive vengeance on others like that. Those are some deep issues; however, I want to end on a super positive note. In the back of one of Rachel’s journals, she wrote “I won’t be labeled as average.” Neither will anyone who comes to know core Self, Heart, that pulse of eternal Spirit with which we arrive to experience life. If you discover your Heart, a good place to start thinking about a new outlook on life would be in Rachel’s challenges. She wasn’t average. She has touched millions of lives. She knew she didn’t need to stay in a physical body to do that. Her life energy continues. I have been thinking about this all day, and I would like to share a bit of magic. I rarely do this, but this one was special. This evening at dusk, I stood outside with my puppies. I just spoke into the air. “Well, Rachel Joy Scott, I’m going to write about you tonight, your life and message.” A burst of red, and a cardinal landed on the back of the chair only a few feet away from two very large dogs! My association with the cardinal is one of voice, my voice for my truth and my voice to write to help others discover their truth. Also, cardinals appearing to people are supposed to let us know that the deceased is visiting us. Both applied here. I thanked Rachel through my Heart to Spirit to her Heart, no longer contained in a body. A powerful force of kindness, a magical force. Blessings!
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Sometimes, I imagine people may feel a bit critical when I write about personal challenges or confess those things I perceive as weakness. Usually, it would be those closest to me. I don’t care, though, not really. Oh, I care about them, about anyone who would criticize me, but critical opinions meant to change me mean nothing.
What I am speaking about tonight reveals the duality of dynamics active in me, in anyone. My cognitive belief is I am perfect and I don’t do things wrong. My Ego, though, makes me feel otherwise at times, but it has less and less opportunity to shoot signals to my soul and mind. When it does, I deal with it instead of trying to justify my Ego-driven thoughts or actions. And just a bit earlier this evening, I wrote about this being one of the most stressful weeks over the last fourteen months. I’m not totally sure why, because I know the Universe works on my behalf based on my energies, and sometimes, I’m not aware of the things I have been calling into my life. I do know what I was thinking about this morning. It’s an issue that presents a challenge to me: money. And because of my childhood, I equate money with self-worth. Not producing an income feels like my work is deficient: Lack money, lack meaning. I, my Heart-self, do not believe that. How do I respond, then, when such feelings arise at a soul, emotion level? I have to ask my Heart to work, to help me see, intuit, understand the dynamics at play. It also seems way simpler when I’m not in the midst of experiencing the emotion, but during the episode, not so simple. I know parts of me Ego has isolated need to be exposed. I know this is important to change the emotions in order to change the energy. I hold my cognitive belief about my self-worth, but soul-emotions drive the energy, and I need to make them right, mainly because that’s part of my truth and my happiness. Carl Jung said, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” So maybe publicly sharing my challenges from time to time may not be considered proper or wise by some, but it helps me “by making the darkness conscious.” It helps me to free that Ego-isolated self, meaning it will be easier to deal with in the future for I will recognize the developing emotions sooner. Yes, I am valuable, worthy, and confident in myself. Not only that but I also love myself, and this journey of growth is intriguing and gives me joy, even in the midst of some very real challenges. Blessings in your journey! The fellowship with my own Heart has brought me through some difficult times. I question certain things in my life, challenges I have mentioned before. However, not once have I, if I put Ego in its place, been left high and dry, stranded in Ego-charged emotions when I consciously chose Heart to process.
This morning I questioned, as I have in the past, my work in terms of how significant it is to others and how successful I am in terms of finances. The reality is both of those are Ego-fueled contemplations. My significance is to myself and Heart, and money has little to do with success. But I still go there — no excuses. While honestly writing about these things this morning in conversation with my Heart, I received a phone call from an older neighbor. She asked if I was home or on my way out. Home, for a few more hours. She needed a ride to the hospital for an outpatient medical procedure. I jumped at the chance, believing that not only could I help her but also that I once again saw evidence of Spirit working through the Universe to bring me what I needed — significance and success. I thought about the call after the mission was accomplished. My neighbor could have called several other neighbor friends; she’s known most of them for the better part of forty years. They are all in full retirement, too, and for the most part, in fine health. Why me? I think it’s because I have worked to build good relationships, and I value the people around me for who they are. She called me; that was significant. I was significant. And my simple Heart-care for others had just garnered success. And I was privileged. I went into the outpatient center with her, and it was the wrong one. We had to drive to another area, and we finally got her settled. When I called this evening to check on her, she told me what she had not this morning: her doctor had said her blood levels were so low that if she couldn’t get a ride and be in the hospital within a half hour that she should get an ambulance and go through the emergency room. The Universe was conspiring on both of our behalves. And I thought to write more this evening; however, I will leave it here. The story is simple. The action was simple. Time investment, even with this evening’s call, was maybe an hour. The process was simple, but the results worked in our souls was a bit of eternity here in the mortal realm. Such times happen to me often, and I don’t usually write about them. They occur almost daily — well, not this big of a deal, physically. I recount this tonight to encourage you as Spirit encouraged me through the fellowship of my own Heart. When I needed something like this, it happened. When I had asked to feel significant and successful and was working that out in my writing, I got the call. The law of attraction is freakin’ awesome. Blessings to you for your encouragement and the simple daily instances of co-creation and the desired, positive engagement of the law of attraction through the fellowship of the Heart! Focusing on the two holidays of Passover and Easter yesterday, I began stating some thoughts that are idealistic. I’ve decided a few things over the years, and although I’ve always been a Romantic in philosophy, even when I didn’t know what that was, I believe Romantics tend to idealism for a simple reason: there’s just no percentage in calculating all the what-ifs of deceitful Ego and those who are in leadership positions that have rejected Heart.
In other words, leaders making decisions based on Ego must account that everyone else is as duplicitous as they are and enact legislation, posit and develop policy concepts, and even innovate based on that assumption. That’s going to bring all down to their level, and that’s exactly where they want it. They desire the wealth, control, and power they derive from operating and leading based on Ego. Sad, sad individuals. Until it’s too late, they never even realize how much they have sidestepped and defeated their own purpose in coming here. And most of the time, they believe their own lies. Sad, sad. However, a minority do not think like that. I will stick with idealism. I doubt I would ever be a thought leader. From what I see and have been told, if I ever sell 500 books, it will be more than expected. However, that will not deter me from writing and speaking my truth and my concepts. I could and would not mind explaining, discussing, and elucidating the following ideals, but I’m not doing that here. Some basic statements with little explanations, less justifications, and no apologies follow.
Governments of today must rule by Heart-principle in spiritual terms: life, light, liberty, happiness, and love, love, love. Yes, that’s a word that should be used in every governmental enclave in the world when making any decision. Anything less is Ego. 2. Education: Such a globally-oriented government doesn’t just happen; it begins with education of youth. Education is in a sorry state today, mainly because Ego-centered and -driven drones of oligarchs and power mongers learned long ago education controls the masses. They decided their Ego-principles should be promulgated by dumping and drilling it into the head of our youth. Then, to reinforce it, they threaten through testing. If tests can’t be passed, woe to the youth who will be limited for the rest of their lives. Bullshit, Ego Bullshit. We need to redefine education: instead of dumping stuff into their poor empty little heads, we should be drawing out the essence of eternity with which we all arrive. My framework has always been to help students to collect enough knowledge, and only enough, to make connections, which includes analyzing, drawing conclusions, stating opinions, and a few other ideas. Then, with their thoughts, they create new knowledge. When that occurs, bodies of knowledge will be sought and consumed at voracious levels, mastered and analyzed, connected to conclusions and opinions of learners, and new knowledge created: that should be the ultimate focus — no tests, no grades. Drawing out and helping students discover Heart is education redefined. Enough for now. These two areas alone would refresh and rebuild society, the global society which must be our only concern or it will be the only reason for our destruction. Heart understanding and Self-awareness, spiritual awakening of the masses would eradicate common problems, problems generated by Ego. No one would be starving, lacking medical care, deprived of a comfortable living environment, or left without fulfilling employment that allows each in their own unique way to express their eternal essence. I would enjoy living in a world like that. Oh, I know the objections to be raised, at least some. And it would probably help me to hear more to help me clarify and further develop ideas to help others discover. Blessings, you wonderful discoverers! I understand a lot of things. In fact, I know a lot of things. I’m smart, but I’m no genius. I actually know several geniuses, so I know I’m not one of them. What I don’t know, however, is how I can know and believe that I embody eternal Spirit, yet I practice so little of that power.
I think of this today because it’s Easter and the end of Passover season. The magic and miracle of resurrection is part of this high frequency life energy. I think many dear people underestimate who we are and what we can do. Jesus himself said we would do greater works than he did. Peter walked on the water. Do you think and believe you can. Then, do it. Do you understand my dilemma? See, I believe that. Not only that but also I believe I could, too. So why don’t I? Should I simply just succumb to mediocrity, say it’s stupid to contemplate such ideas, and not live pretending like I have any such power? When I consider that alternative, I must conclude a rather nihilistic life philosophy. Does any of life matter? If we don’t have the power to create dynamic life situations, the same power of faith that can perform magic and miracles, then we are at best limited. We must, then, do the best we can, live within limitations, conclude that the smarter and stronger will get what they want, and that when push comes to shove, the strongest will win. We must just accept things as they are, play the hand we’ve been dealt. What are you gonna do? It’s resignation — desperation confirmed. Hopes, dreams, imagination for making things different don’t mean much. We don’t mean much if we believe like this. You just gotta do what you gotta do and shut up about it. Yeah, I don’t buy it. We are powerful creators. What throws me is I don’t see results quick enough for my liking, I suppose. But it’s a journey, one I am not willing to resign to mediocrity. One I am not willing to resign to Ego hopelessness. And that’s a distinction I wish to make. Ego hopelessness attaches to a specific outcome and when we don’t get exactly what we want, we cave in to despair and maybe depression. I reject that. Heart also has a sense of hopelessness, however, but it means we give up specific form and outcomes. We focus on high frequency emotions. This will bring about manifestation. For instance, we may want love and a meaningful relationship. We may fix our focus on a specific individual — must have him or her. If that doesn’t happen, heartbreak results. Real Heart-motivation, though, might think it could be that one and might think on and pursue him or her, but if it doesn’t work out, someone else will — unquestionably. We are hope-less in the sense of specific things, forms, but not in terms of knowing we will get what we want: happiness. Settling will never make for profound or permanent happiness. For christians, Easter Day is a proclamation: Jesus was raised from the dead. The reality is that magic and miracles happen every day, and that the real energy for those is not in a body that dies but in eternal Spirit that is our core. For Jews, the Passover season proclaims that when the Israelites left Egypt, death passed over their firstborn children by an act of faith, and they were headed for the promised land. Faith that death held no threat for them, that when steps were taken based on their belief, blessing awaited them. They didn’t know what for sure — no attachment to form — just that they would be free. Freedom from being limited by the bonds of mortality, freedom to act according to an unseeable hope, and freedom to be happy in the reality of magic and miracles. So, let’s move forward together in Spirit, and lay hold of the power which is our source! Onward and upward! |
Questions to consider:How many times have you asked yourself or simply thought about the following questions?
Who am I, really? What is my truth? How do my actions reveal what I really feel and believe? What would I do with my life if I could do anything? What is my passion? Why am I here? How can I discover answers to any of these questions? If you have considered any of these questions, I hope that my experiences and writing will give you some guidance. Please read my blog and comment and share your thoughts. I would love to hear from you! Archives
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