I totally agree with your comments about shining your light — if you shine your light within, you get more light back in your life. It’s easy to forget that sometimes when life gets hard or you start to feel pain. Often, going inside, hiding and feeling the darkness of that pain is the first reaction…until we learn that this not only harms us, but the people around us who feel the vibes of our fear and darkness.

Thanks for creating content to remind us to go inside and take care of what’s there.

With love,
Heather

SlowHand, I was PMing with another SU friend yesterday. I said “Inspiration is more viral than anger though anger a close second” and your thoughts were what I was conveying insofar as “negative idealism.”

That quality of contemplating the negative occurrences…as well as the dwelling in that place - I have dwelled there too. I drank much, dwelling in that place.

Yes! …and that is the choice! To change our thoughts. To start with that step.

We may not be able, from residing in the negative space inclined to these thoughts, control or fix the tsunami or hurricane katrina…So we turn our frustration inside and it feeds. We cannot change that so we dwell. We dwell as “proof” and then depression. But this can change and that’s the good news.

How to change. As in the spirit of Gandhi…We cannot fix the tsunami but we *can* clean our kitchen, feed a homeless animal, smile at a sad person… A small step maybe but can we manage that change?

If we can shift the way we think in this small degree [and with the faith of a mustard seed perhaps] and subsequently take the small actions wouldn’t it make sense this, too, grows bigger and can begin to feed itself?

We must be the light…the change, [the God] we wish to see in the world. If enough of us do this, as you say SH, yes, the world cannot help but change. A shift in conciousness would naturally yield a shift in our world. It starts with me and I am glad this doesn’t end with me.

Small practical steps, that practice idealism, when often I would prefer to take giant ones. It is not enough to meditate, or imagine in the mind some desired goal being accomplished, if we are afraid to act upon the impulses to which our meditations and imaginings give rise.

When we do not take active steps forward toward an ideal position, our lives can lack excitement and there is a shift towards depression. A reverse position can manifest, in that we turn into reverse idealists, contemplating the occurrence of earthquakes and tsunami’s. These thoughts can be propelled by a sense of personal frustration, I have dwelt in this place.

My truth reflects and connects with the ‘Ronin’ rather than William Wallace, I respect and honour your path :o)

Again we go back to Gandhi, if we want to change our world, we first change our thoughts, our expectations and our beliefs. If enough of us do this, our world will change, freedom can blossom.

I really enjoyed reading it all. Gandhi will always remain in my mind an example of how significant each and every one of us, maybe not *is*, but *can* be. The more such ‘road signs’ pointing the ‘right way’, the bigger the chance for more people to recollect on their lives and the creation of a better, more peaceful world.

Cheers!

Matt

(Namaste indeed :)

As far as violent heroes go - Is there one I am familiar with more violent than Wallace?

I’m for freedom. The way to achieve it as an absolute I don’t know SH. It’s been gnawing at me though.

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