We have just exited a year in which desperation and fear may have reached their zenith. It's over, now time for further awakening.
Until recently, I was of the mind, the mind that told me that there must be a violent cleansing, a catastophic wake-up because we have been so asleep, so stubbornly asleep. Now I think that it serves us better to believe that we can save ourselves from an apocolyptic cleansing. And we can do that by amping up our love for each other. It is the only solution we have yet to try concertedly. And it is the only thing that will save us. Our awakening is at hand if we will but see all that is in front of us as opportunities to respond with Love. The accelerating vibrational frequency of the Earth and the increasing amount of light exposed to the Earth as she nears the center of our galaxy will assist us, but we must make the choice.
To make the choice---the choice to live from the courageous heart rather than the hypnotized, fearful mind---we are collectively faced with coming to three realizations.
First, that it is wise to be aware of what is in front of us. That means waking up to the nature of that which is asking us to wake up: corrupt government, destructive and divisive religion, dark corporate forces and mercenary media. Our love cannot overwhelm these forces if we do not have the courage to admit that we have been foolish enough to let them control us, to drain us of our innate powers of love, unity and trust. Until we peacefully, powerfully demand more of those who pretend to guide us, we will appear to decline. It is time to right the ship.
Second, once we are willing to see clearly that we have misplaced our trust, the challenge is to then place deeper trust in our unified power. Call it a platitude, if you wish, but the power of Love is more powerful than any other force anywhere. And a unified Love of those willing to be led by the powerful will of the heart cannot be defeated. So the time has come for us to trust ourselves, our lovingly powerful selves. The time has come to surrender to this Love. It is a powerful surrender.
In making this surrender, we are redefining what power truly is. This is the third, and maybe the most powerful of the realizations: True power is only that which is based in unconditional love for everyone and every thing, even "the bad guys."
As we choose awareness and trust, we are also served to no longer respond to the corrupt institutions with anger, violence, hoplessness or fear. Such responses may seem natural, but they drain us of our true power. Marching in the streets, angrily calling your congressman or having damning thoughts about religious fools doesn't serve the collective good. The corrrupt forces are ingorant. Rather than battle them, we are being challenged to love them ruthlessly. Decades ago, Carlos Castenada clarified what is now in front of us collectively. He said, "For a sorcerer, ruthlessness is not cruelty. Ruthlessness is the opposite of self-pity or self-importance. Ruthlessness is sobriety." We are being called to realize that we are all, at depth, sorcerers. We have hidden this power from ourselves. It is awakening time.
Sobriety is consistently responding to life with true and loving Power. It takes the courage to identify with the will of the heart and it takes the deep trust of the heart as one's most trusted guide. As more and more of us realize this power, we are birthing the era of loving harmony. Any suffering that comes about as part of the birthing process comes from our resistance to the integration and the exercise of this great Power called Love.
Each time you make the choice to respond to the experiences of life with Love, you charge up the collective power, our unified Love. You make a difference. And it is especially important now to send love to all those who have been ignorant enough to abuse humanity: those who make war, those whose acts impoverish or weaken, those who place financial profit over the health and abundance of the people. It is time to send love to these people more and more often now as a powerful prayer, a way of creating the vision of a loving world.
You have the power to do it. We all do. Let's make this new year all about being more loving more of the time. Collectively, as a solution to the challenges of the world, we have yet to fully turn to love as the ultimate solution. In 2011, let's come to realize that Love is truly the only solution. I
t's wake up time.
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The logo shown above is a reminder that we have the power to access the loving will of the heart. Through this connection with our deeper selves, something we can do by pausing in silence to contemplate that which is loving in us, we smooth the path to our loving destiny. In my new book, "The Wake Up Book", I offer tools designed to help deepen one's understanding of the heart's capacity for love, calm, happiness and a sense of conneciton.
