The Turn

... there is a lot of thought about change as the years turn ... how this next year is going to be the one ... how all wrongs will be righted, and all dreams fulfilled, hopes manifest ... and this spirit of hope is the triumph of the wonderful human spirit ... a spirit that believes against the evidence of the past that the future will somehow be different ...

I wish you well with your dreams, I have some myself though they are abstract in nature, as abstract as dreams that make no sense but have meaning buried within ... but I still ask that you consider the following ...

You have little control over your life ... your skill is not in mastering the game, but in playing the hand that will be dealt to you in the coming year ... whether that will be a good or bad hand is not your concern ... how you deal with it is your concern ...

The less you try, the less you try and control events, the more energy you have to be receptive ... and if you make space for receiving signals that are not rational but universal and natural, and you trust in these signals that come in the shape of feelings and thoughts and even epiphanies, then change will come at a 'divine' pace ... and if it feels too slow adjust your clock from human time to cosmic time ...

Not everything is temporary, some things exist for eternity, like love for a child or a man or a woman, or Batman sequels ... and this always love ignites the dead material of this place we inhabit and charges it to a better future ... but beware ...

We can love ... but if we allow this love to define us, to bring us happiness, to guide us entirely ... if we hold onto this love as though it is all we are, and that without it we cease to exist, then we sacrifice ourselves ... and if we sacrifice ourselves then we don't really exist at all ... there is fortitude in love as there is fortitude in life ... it is work, it is commitment, it is passion ... but it is not obsession at the expense of ourselves ...

all is temporary, our loved ones will change and move on, the day will come ... so love yourself this year as you have never loved before ... the world needs you

F.A.I.T.H.

If there is one leap of faith to consider, it is the belief that ...

We are not seperate from the elemental forces that gave birth to us, and that no person or conscious entity who has ever lived, or will ever live, is priviledge to any knowledge, secrets or power greater than that which we ourselves already have, or are capable of acquiring through faith in ourselves.

We are at the forefront of time. We are at the threshold of experience. We are the keepers of consciousness. There is nobody ahead of us and there is nobody behind us. We are quite literally where it's at folks, and where it will always be.

Once we can grasp this one fact and understand that faith in ourselves in the light of this fact is our only concrete resource, we can apply loving kindness because we know that all living beings are in the same state. We can see through the petty troubled beaurocrats and angry husbands, resentful wives, spiteful children, egotistic colleagues, jealous siblings and into the light that these people have never witnessed even though this state is their rightful inheritance too.

The emotional vampires and troubled souls that previously infected our lives are impotent to curse us with their own pain as soon as we feel compassion for their unhappiness, and feel pity that they are in pain.

We do this through our faith in ourselves - a faith I propose may be capable of aligning us with the vibrations of the stars themselves until words are no match for magic ...