The World As WE Are
When you get serious about any spiritual practice, there comes a moment when you don’t want to do it anymore. It’s just too hard. That’s when it’s most important to keep going.
The debate. That infamous debate that left most of the Democrats I know feeling completely hopeless. On the one hand, a cruel, narcissistic tyrant. On the other, a good man cut off at the knees by age — at a time when our very survival as a country depends on it. We wring our hands. He must step down! Or, we have to stand by him, because it’s too late!
This is an opportunity for us to check our internal workings.
I’m dead serious.
Stop. Look at our own minds.
There is a quote attributed to Anaïs Nin, and it sure nails what I’m trying to say right now:
“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”
In this moment of desperate scrambling for power, rumblings of another Civil War, predictions that the rule of law is crumbling…let’s take a look at how we’re seeing the world, and what it means about who we are.
Trump. There’s no way that’s who I am. Absolutely no way.
Only…let me sit still for a minute and consider this.
He makes sweeping, completely baseless…
