Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Finally, CONFLICT SILENCES “The SHIFT” …
In a nutshell, humanity is teetering on the edge of quite the jagged cliff . We are literally
headed to down a broad, cozy, I’m gonna-get-mine-&-bash-anyone-who-gets-in-my-way
road that leads to one place and one place only: our eventual extinction. Our species has
only one real chance at ultimately surviving; only one real chance to know real Bliss;
only one true chance to stop being a cancer (both to our planet & to each other) and
become Caretakers of the Cosmos instead.
And this chance asks – no, this chance demands – that we have the courage to show
Compassion to those who “least deserve” the same; that we have the humility to see the
Good that glows beneath the thin crusts of “evil” and its cruelties;
… essentially, that we have the guts to be Kind when least inclined.
Peace-full Transcendence does not come on roads that are easy and comfortable and fun
and soft. Powerful growth only comes when a being has the guts to never give up; the
guts to do the brave deed; the guts to walk the narrow path;
… basically, the guts to brave the darkness of self-centered fear by actively championing
the Light of selfless Love.
It is not only our personal Happiness at stake here, my Friends …
Our survival as a entire species is at stake.
“By killing an enemy, we strengthen habits of aggression that will last far longer than
any adversary. The greatest heroes & heroines are not those who fight out of hatred, or
are trapped in a bias of right & wrong, but rather are those who resolutely face
hardships in order to gain victory over anger, over prejudice and over war.”
~ inspired by Pema Chodron
“Jesus rejected hatred. It was not because he lacked the vitality or the strength to combat
it, and it was not because he lacked the incentive. Jesus rejected hatred because he saw
that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his
internal Father. Jesus affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial thereof.”
~ inspired by Howard Thurman
“The wise and regenerated have no need to go to war, nor to engage in strife, nor to
cover over their hands with the blood of others. For they are children of Peace who have
beat their spears into plowshares … and they know no form of war.”
~ inspired by Menno Simons
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