Earth

It is my experience and observation that working with the earth creates wisdom. As if an invisible thread of intelligence transfers from the soil into the hands. The quality of earth can be described as grounded, stable, balanced: a prerequisite to a deeper perception. It is this quality that is largely missing in the world of incessant movement and stimulation. 

The slow-moving energy has no time to start its journey. It is the fortunate ones who are able to maintain its existence within themselves despite the external chaos. To allow it to gain speed will signify a release of an immense potential, a tiny stream turning into a rapid river that, if left unguided, can create havoc. And so the dance of duality is to continue, from inertia to movement, from slow to quick, from earth to air. 

Earth is the basis. Earth is the support. Earth is a quiet knowing.

The Next Step

We can not have peace if we, fundamentally, don't have reverence for life. Any life: human, animal, or otherwise.

We cannot have peace if we, fundamentally, have distrust of each other.

The question to answer is why are we so quick to pass judgement on someone? We cannot have true insight into anyone's feelings or thoughts or life experience. The way in is profound understanding and full disclosure. That takes time, desire to understand, willingness to listen.

Our society isn't built on vulnerability or trust. We operate mostly out of fear, fight or flight. Very often, our fight is worse than those of animals whom we consider to be inferior enough to us to be killed en masse or for fun. 

We are humans. We have a brain significantly larger than any other life form. We can and absolutely must do and be better.

The Hand of Grace

It's always reaching
The hand of grace
Even in full darkness
And in spite of yourself

To have the wisdom
When light is dull
Keep keepin' on
In day's heat and the night's cold

And you bow down
On your knees to see
In that fatal hour
You will become free

Greatness

To be great at anything, you must be great at the basics. Want to dance? Know the very basic footwork and the rhythms. Want to cook? Know the very basics of tastes and textures. Want to build? Know the basics of measurements and materials. Not just intellectually know, live and feel and experience those qualities. They must become you and you must become them.

Same goes for life. Want to be great at life? Know the basics of that and yet... There is no university or a class to take. Life is lived without understanding the very fundamentals. The very core of what makes the world and people go round. The school of life is nowhere to be found. One is thrown into the wild with no grasp or connection to that which is most important: the simple truths that can guide one to a life of beauty and awareness, of joy and its full expression. Of transformation and liberation. 

In the meantime, we complicate, defend, destroy, and block. We must learn to see right through to the core and strip away all that is fluff. We must become great within ourselves and live a life of greatness, also, within ourselves.

The Divine Cleansing

And the only way out is to stand completely naked under the rain of the feminine and be showered with all the things that lead you to the place of salvation and truth, a place to where you're going anyway, without understanding this is what you are seeking and searching for through all your desperate acts of recognition or power over another's life. Drop the bravado and surrender, for this is where you find what you are and have been longing for. Then and now.

Peace on Earth

The day a man sees approaching a woman as entering a holy temple 
is the day of peace on earth.