Lighting the World

We all carry within us an inner lamp, drawing from a limitless well of light, which we can access from within our imagination. That light is our spiritual light, the source of our being, our creativity, our "goodness." The light in you shines out into the world, merging with the light of all others.  The urgency to uplift our hurting world begs us to discover and turn up our inner lanterns.

Can you see it, radiantly glowing within the inner chamber of your mind?  When you catch sight of it, it dances, glowing brighter as you look at it. It almost rejoices at your consciousness peeking at it as if it's waited millenia for you to find it. The very act of looking at it, seems to delight it and it responds by glowing brighter.  That lamp, placed within your soul from the beginning of time, is fueled by the One who is source of all that is. 

This One who is all that is and source of all that is, is both genius and energy of creation. The One is the ultimate consciousness of creation, ultimate intelligence, power and perfection.  And, in the absence of a better word, both Creator and substance of creation are love.  Intellectually we understand "love" as that which links people and which uplifts us, fills us with inspiration, joy, hope and meaning. It is also what leads us to be better people, more loving, more generous, less selfish. While this quality of love can be felt, experienced in the soul of our being, it is also the ultimate quality and power of creation, cohering thought with matter to create, even empowering thought with focused, intentional emotion for healing.  

Love feels good because it leads us to create more life, which we were created to do. It is that inner flame flaring forth. It is the upsurging of creative light, energy and power from that inner well. It is the spiritual blood in our veins and it always moves outwardly, flowing away from its source, toward life, toward others.  It also sings out loud to uplift, heal, embrace, comfort and embrace.

Love is good because it is positively charged, proactive, creative and life-building, rather than destructive.  It actually has an energy, a vibration which we can feel. And, it feels good. When we feel it, it means we are working with and in alignment with our creator, which is our destiny.  It is truth. It is authentic reality.

Perhaps most of all, love is wise.  It contains an inspired intelligence which offers vision and guidance in how to love others.  To simply love, blindly, may leave one vulnerable resulting in being a servant to evil.  To authentically love, is to love wisely, potently with the intelligence inherent in divine love.  Wise love helps you see what you need to see and how to focus your intention to love, to heal, and to uplift another. 

It may know why the other is disconnected from his or her own source / center and what in that person - or persons' - past has stunted their spiritual growth or built a huge boulder of fear, or taught them money is more valuable than the spirit of love, or that judgment is the way of the divine rather than creativity, acceptance and forgiveness. 

Love listens and learns about the deepest needs of the other, the others' wounds, and how to apply the right spiritual medicine to those wounds. Love is able to step outside its own realm of need and hear the other fully.

Evil, however, in this polarity world, is not real (not in the big meaning of real) because nothing real and eternal is anything other than creative. Evil is actually a lie, albeit a terribly painful one.  It is an illusionary twisted notion causing us to act, and react, to its mistaken understanding of reality.  It is essentially non-creative and is quite literally anti-life. As it is a symptom of being disconnected from that inner lamp, that well of ultimate source, it needs to prey on others for its life source by seducing - through manipulation or control - others into its web. 

It actively moves destructively against creation, and consequently against life. It is also a reaction to what is and is based on fear and ignorance. It is based on false evidence (appearing real.) So, it's already short circuited and limited. Ultimately, it is powerlessness, yet it appears to be powerful because it threatens to (and does) kill and destroy, feeding on the energy of the terrible drama it creates.  

Recently, the new Pope urged us to "respond to evil with good."  This is a necessary, yet challenging task, one that requires great wisdom. We are all caught up in an illusionary stage of reality and we all are tempted constantly to believe what we see, rather than see what we believe. 

There is no question that the world is teetering on a perilious cliff of destruction and yet we still have time, an opportunity, to tip our collective future in another direction.  We must wake up.  We must take a stand.  We must choose life, choose love.  Since love is the creative power of the unvierse, it is our only weapon against the darker forces that lurk in the darkness and yet when the lights are turned on aren't there at all.   We can choose to only see the good, to look beyond what seems to present itself before us and look beyond it.  We can keep looking and looking until we find that small lamp within the other person and by looking at their lamp, we help turn up the God-light, the goodness, within them.  By loving, we draw out the love that is there - really is there - in the other person. 

If people all over the world did that - returned evil with good - loved the person not the deed - could they help to transform this hurting world?  If who we are - who we choose to be rather than who we feel like being sometimes - we might find that inviting our light to shine in grace, love, patience and beauty outwardly, our own light would warm us as well as those who are not particularly as loving. I truly think that we will see the truth in life and be blessed with power and love and wisdom as we do this and find ourselves ascending into a much more evolved and fuller version of ourselves. That is my hope for myself and the world, all of us.