There is one answer. I don’t need the question…just the answer. This one answer will lead us out of greed, the need for power over others and the self-righteous desire for self-preservation above all else. That answer is compassion.

First, compassion towards self. Compassion towards self means to be healed of anything less than love. To root out and release all fear, hatred, anger, judgment and resentment and by doing so, to radiate God Itself. Then we might accept that we each are a temple of the Divine, humble and essential.

Having traveled the path this far, then we might be able to feel the needs of others…all others. This is compassion in its highest demonstration. To look toward others and notice their own struggle to align with love. To notice because we, too, have the same struggle…the struggle to see God in the midst of everything.

This is great and noble work. Life work, really. I believe there is no work more important than this: through compassion, to see God in the midst of everything. Each one of us is essential in this great unfolding.

Here is an excerpt from a blog by Martha Beck that applies here for me.

“My job today is to feel all the parts of me that are like the darkest parts of my profoundly divided country, my profoundly divided species. It is to listen to them, to understand them until my own fear, anger, and sorrow dissolve into the light of compassion.
I can only do this inside myself — but that will be enough. It will be enough because one healed person broadcasts an energy that can pull dozens, hundreds, millions of people out of their own darkness.“

I’m in.
Much love
Paula