Let’s play a game. Suppose for a moment you were completely separate from the person that is reading this post. Imagine you were an infinitely wise spirit, there to guide the human monkey through its life on Earth. Your goal was to lead that person to find happiness, experience all that this incarnation has to offer, and help ensure that the other humans too had their best chance, now and into the future, to experience the same. How would you treat the person? Would you continually berate it for decisions made errantly in the past, or after it suffered the natural consequences would you offer him/her a smile and some encouraging words? Would you look at its body with disdain at its imperfections, or would you love it for being the unique creature that was your privilege to guide? What would you feed it and exercise it? Would you allow it to remain in abusive or toxic relationships? How often would you advise it to get in nature, travel, and experience the beauty of the world? We are the spirit guide for the human monkey. Our capacity to be abusive to that creature, far exceeds what we would do to any friend or any being under our care. Be good to yourself – Life will punish us enough, there is no need to lash our own sensitive hearts with the barbed whip of self-flagellation. Give yourself a hug as full of love and warmth as from the kindest soul you have ever known. In that embrace, forgive yourself completely. We could all be better, but without love and inspiration from the spirit that knows us the best, we will wander alone, lost in a desert of apathy and suffering. - Warrior Poet
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:08:50 +0000