Every violent event and shooting that has happened in our world lately is provoked by the same reason: our human afflictions.
Death is hard to endure, but if anything decent can come from it, it's the inexplicable kindness and love humans can possess. It’s a reminder that we are mortal beings, and our livelihood can be taken away in an instant. It’s a time to reconnect and remember and to honor lives. The simple fact that humans can show this amount of love and gratitude makes me question why, in any situation, someone would want to neglect that.
I often try to live at the level of spirituality and connection I call "aware." For me, this means being acutely connected to the space around me and contemplating my place among the rest of humanity, spinning in the cosmos.
It's a place of empathy, love and respect. As hard as I try, however, I often feel I have to go against what I believe; to become deliberately unaware, to coexist with those around me. These human concerns always pull me back down to a more basic level of functioning, an auto-pilot kind of life. I cannot be my aware self.
Being aware, for me, means to see every human life as significant. We are not just cogs in a wheel, we all play a vital role in the universe. Being aware, we are all connected. Every single action has an impact on everything else in the universe. While I’m on this earth to learn the lesson my soul needs, I also know I’m doing my duty and playing my part in the bigger scheme.
Because we are all connected, it pains me to see death produced by hate. Death produced by power. Death produced by greed. So I have to bring myself down to a lower level of consciousness to comprehend these atrocities.
“They were fueled by hate.”
“They were fueled by power.”
“They were fueled by money.”
I think our human culture forces us to remain “unenlightened," so we can continue producing goods, killing, making money and gaining power. But I need to ask: why?
I’m tired of trying to understand motivations and positions. This is not what we are. Our souls are not cruel or hateful or greedy. They are kind, loving, empathetic and compassionate. We are souls having a human experience, and so far, have completely disregarded that fact.
I think this is a lesson that our spirits need to learn. Our human experience is filled with temptation and deceit and hate, but we need to be open to see that we don’t have to give into it. Giving into these human concerns have destroyed cultures and lives. We need to accept each other and to love one another.
The moment these humans, molded by money and greed and hatred and power, start to think about something other than humanly concerns, is when the world will start to change.
