What I Believe - 12-8-2010

I’m not sure I’ve really gotten into this anywhere in public (or on the internet) before, but… My goal in life is to make a positive impact in the world. I would like to help people get more enjoyment out of life by encouraging and inspiring them to savor life.

I believe life is a gift and we are all connected. Each person has unique things to offer the world. These things are precious jewels in my opinion. People need to invest in each other’s happiness. Because we’re all connected, it’s as if we’re investing in our own.

The goals of defeating and outdoing each other are misguided and exist to keep us stratified. People were born to lift each other up and create the highest levels of appreciation and understanding possible. Humans are a team. In fact, the whole planet is. When people start thinking, feeling and living this way, their weaknesses will emerge as strengths. Instead, we squabble over pennies blindly, frittering away each day tired with meaningless tasks instead fulfilling our true purposes.

The whole world is projection. What we see and focus on outside ourselves are reflections of our inner truths. As we battle each other, we truly are battling ourselves. When we embrace harmony and peace over conflict and acrimony, we become light. We rise up and the problems we perceived as our own become revealed as the passing discomforts that we are.

Each breath is a gift to be cherished. Each conversation with a loved one. Each embrace we share. Every bit of sunlight. Every breath of fresh air. There are no coincidences. If there were, life itself and our ecosystem specifically, our bodies would be a miracle beyond our wildest imaginations. They represent our potential, what we really are, reflections of ourselves. If one removes so themselves so far from trees, the sun and nature, they lose who they really are. For without these natural phenomena, we’d all be dead.

I hope I live to see the world once it’s shifted into an environment where how much you care for other people is the prime determinant of one’s value as a person, and not how many possessions one can accumulate for their own egotistical greed. I hope I live to see the day when we all clearly realize that there is no glory in this extreme accumulation. This perverse wealth is starvation around the globe directly. When one has the power to feed thousands and chooses only to feed themselves the finest foods and fanciest toys, that person is miserable inside. That person may believe they’ve earned this bounty or that they are entitled to it because society told them they were, but no one person is so much more important than any other person that they have 50 cars while other people starve.

We are all one. Therefore we are all equally important. Money is one measure of a person only. And it is certainly not a measure of their happiness, their heart or their integrity. People have got it backwards a little bit, having replaced mountains and the ocean with TV and the internet, but I still believe. I still have faith in humanity to rise about this Era of Illusion.

I still believe people are driven above all else, by love. That people want more. That they deserve and that that they will have more as soon as people, individually, one by one, demand this for and from themselves. Once enough people make this conversion, the way the world is today will be an unacceptable alternative to a caring life of generosity and meaningful experiences.