One of my biggest challenges is to watch those around me, especially those I love, fall prey to all the lies and deception because they are ignorant, unquestioning, brainwashed and programmed and to allow them to live in their own truth, even if that truth is illusionary.
I live right in the thick of the ‘matrix’ and witness so many people with health struggles and suffering mental breakdowns. I try to impart the knowledge I’ve learned on my own journey, particularly when it comes to health since that is the path I’m currently on, but I’m yet to come across anyone who actually takes that knowledge on board and uses their initiative to do their own research. Inevitably, they choose to take their doctor’s advice and pop some pills for conditions that can be managed through lifestyle changes. Pills which are slowly killing them and that lead to needing more pills to manage ...
the side effects, all while propping up the pharmaceutical industry.
I’m seeing people around me starting to fall apart in one way or another, and that’s their path and their lessons to learn if they so choose. But I was involved in a situation just recently, that reminded me of this quote below. It could also be said that your capacity to allow people to live a truth completely opposite to yours, without shutting off your love for them, is a reflection of how powerful your compassion is.
Either way, it's an important reminder for me that every experience and interaction with another is an opportunity for me to reach deeper levels of unconditional love and to live with more compassion. Love and truth go hand in hand and are lived, not just learned. In the words of Ram Dass “I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion, and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
Arohanui 🙏💚