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The Love Cure

Infinite love already exists in everything that is alive, including you and me. Our love lessons are about removing the obstacles to love. They teach us out how to access, express and live it, if we choose to do so.

Fear, anger, prejudice… there are a myriad of padlocks with which we hold our love hostage. The experiences we have around love are all opportunities for self-examination. They teach us how to love better.

This can feel difficult in a world that is expressing so much dissension and “un-love”. Each of us is a key to healing it. Consider that perhaps the high tension and hatred being expressed in the world right now is a challenge to unlock our own love. Change begins within each of us.

Inspirational Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

The haiku Cure is an excerpt from Hart Haiku Vol. 1 / The Love Cure commentary is from 25 Big Ways to Grow Your Life (discontinued)

© Susan L Hart 2024

Save It, Or Savor It?

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world, and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ~ E.B. White

I know exactly what E.B. White means…

Must it be a choice? Perhaps the answer to E.B. White’s dilemma is to savor the world every day, while we save it. Or maybe savoring it in actual fact saves it? (Gratitude and reverence.)

It’s a very delicate balance. I believe we are here to do both.

What do artists and writers have to say about the world? Speaking as both, I think they fall into two main categories. They either want you to see the beauty, so you’ll savor it. Or they want you to see the ugliness and pain, so that you’ll help to make it better. I think there is value in both approaches.

Inspirational Quotes

“We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
~ Joseph Campbell

“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
~ Chris Abani

“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
~ Grace Paley

“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.” ~ Amal El-Mohtar

“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.” ~ Blansky

Declaration

The future shines bright for
those who put intention there.
Reach for the brass ring!

Time to see ourselves
as the glorious beings
humans truly are.

Let’s choose to become
the galactic citizens
we were born to be.

Consciousness rising,
awareness of destiny,
the big unveiling!

Excitement builds as
we claim the potential of
our own Creation.

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Classic Light & Dark

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The classic battle between light and dark is being played out right before our eyes. Remember all those movies where you were cheering for the hero(es) to win, and for goodness to prevail?

In our current reality, sometimes it is difficult to know who is on the side of the light. There are many forces at play, and there is a lot of double talk that makes it confusing.

Now is the time to use your own power of discernment. Look for the signs and the clues to find the truth. Listen to your gut. Here is an essential spiritual guiding thought: Something that truly has your best interests at heart does not want to control you. Control is rooted in dark energy. Energy of the light does not try to dominate and diminish. Light desires expansion, growth, and enlightenment, fulfilling its infinite potentiality.

Now, who has the best interest of you and the rest of humanity at heart?

Inspirational Quotes:

“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” ~ Veronica Roth

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

A Different Reality

Just why is it
that we don’t
have a happier
world than this?

What are
we waiting for?
Someone
to give us
permission,
someone to
tell us how
to do it,
someone who’ll do
it for us.

Those some
ones aren’t
coming.

I want a
different reality,
I believe
that must
be possible,
and I want to
help build it.

How about you?

Tally

In the final act,
what will your answer be to,
“Did I live my truth?”

Classic Light & Dark is an archive from March 10, 2023

The poem A Different Reality and the haiku Tally are excerpts from Humanity’s Lament: Poetry for Our Times (It’s free.)

Birthright

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