What the World Needs Now Is You

Everyone on the planet has to deal with the concept of good and evil whether we believe in duality or not. Christians believe in God and the Devil, while Hinduism supports the belief that there is only good and that evil is only an illusion sparked by desire. Conspiracy theorists purport the Illuminati and Reptilians as contentious forces that have to be reckoned with, because their downfall is the only hope for mankind to experience more than a merely palatable existence. Whatever our personal belief, we all can agree on one thing, whether evil is the opposite of good or only an illusion, whether there's a concerted effort to alter or diminish our lives, our collective human condition can and should be made better than it presently is.

Truth, light, and love can collaboratively provide a means for bettering our condition, and practicing them in our everyday experiences will make a difference in not only how we co-exist with one another. Furthermore, our employment of these realities will give us renewed access to the unheralded beauty that our universe provides, allowing us countless opportunities to live lives of uncompromising well-being, peace and joy.

 The truth inherent in our present way of life, is that we react to situations rather than being proactive in our dealings with ourselves and one another. We respond to the conditions of others, who we deem as being better off, by getting upset. We focus more on what others have that we don't have, instead of looking at we do have and determining what we can do with it to better the lives of others, and our own lives in the process. We envy and talk about others because we're looking at who we think they think they are, rather than who we already are and who we're capable of becoming. We feel that we're being treated badly by others because we're more concerned with what we can get out of a situation instead of what we can put into it. The truth is that we want to be recognized as being right and want those who do not contribute to our 'needs' to know and admit that they are wrong. We'd rather be right than do right. We react on what's going on around us rather than actively seeking to do something about it.

We are all sources of light and we should purpose to bring that light to our every encounter with others. Rather than bringing disdain and disfavor to a conversation about Whitney Houston's drug use, or attitudes of malice and revenge to discussions of Travon Martin, maybe we should share our thoughts about the bigger picture. We can talk about on how drug trafficking and lax gun laws, perpetrated by the love of money might be what needs to be addressed and how anything else is only a distraction from the truth. When involved in more personal matters, such as confrontations with family, co-workers, and friends, instead of responding with bitterness and tears, maybe we should try and sense what the real deal and not take it personally. In most cases when people are experiencing discomfort, it has nothing to do with the person being lashed out at, they just happen to be there. We should try and offer what we think would resolve the confrontation and/or excuse ourselves from it. Negative energy fuels dislike and separation; and the concept of divide and conquer, whether purposed or not, will prevail if we don't stop focusing on being right rather than doing right. Light will uncover the truth and our bringing it will pave the way for everyone involved to be set free to love each other more.

Love is the realm of oneness that pervades our spiritual being, and needs to be made manifest, to a greater degree, in our secular existence. To become as one we must stay focused on our purpose for being here, that purpose being our attempt each day to make another person's life better as a result of having encountered us. Most of us seek fame and fortune, which opens the door to greed, lustful thinking, and despair. We look for a way out through a means of superficial gratification nd find ourselves addicted to a material substance or another human being, neither of which provides us with the love we were really seeking because we sought it through another means. Let's not look for the good and the bad, the right and wrong in our lives but find the joy even in the sublime. Making concessions rather than fighting back. Standing strong, while bending, as a tree in the wind. Let's offer hope where there was once despair. Let's make every effort to live that highly significant, little Sunday School ditty, ' This Little Light of Mine'.

Whether we believe in what's called 'duality' or not, of one thing we can be sure, evil can not exist in the presence of truth, light, or love. Each of us doing our part in putting them collaboratively into the universe, will serve to insure that the world had been made a better place as a result of our being here.


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