Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*If you believe in Human Rights, you can protest Coca-Cola for assassination in
Columbia, for water privatization in India, and for the abuse of worker’s rights all over
the world.
*If you believe in every child’s right to live happy & healthy, you can protest the Nestle
Corporation, which to this day still supports child slavery on its cocoa farms in the Ivory
Coast.
*If you believe in democracy, you can protest the hundreds of thousands of “criminals”
who have been wrongfully convicted and whose lives are wrongfully wasting away in
U.S. prisons.
*If you are a Christian, you can protest God’s current & continuing unjust condemnation
of all Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, Sikhs and homosexuals.
*And if you love animals, you can protest the repulsive cruelty and needless slaughter of
millions of animals every day by the meat & dairy industry.
If we are going to awaken to a life of real Meaning, we must free ourSelves from the
authorities in our lives — authorities that are encouraging us to cave in to our fears;
authorities that are encouraging us to look the other way; authorities that are encouraging
us to have no courage; authorities that are persuading us to be less than Who We Truly
Are. There is really little choice in this matter … In order to live a life of Peace & Joy &
Meaning, you are simply going to have to rebel against all powers unjust and inequitable.
Martin Luther King Jr. summarized it well when he said, “The question is not whether we
will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be … The nation and the world are
in dire need of creative extremists.” And this begs the all-important question: not
whether we will revolt, but what form our revolution will take; not whether or not we will
resist fear “from above”, but how we will do so.
How fortunate we all are to be such powerful beings … How blessed we all are to be able
to effectuate such great change, even if we can only do “but a little”!
For this is the Truth that I bring before you today: that you do not have to overthrow an
unjust government or bankrupt a corrupt company to do “amazing good” in your lifetime.
You simply have to stand up to those evil forces with methods that are powerful — and
allow even more powerful change to follow.
Indeed, to “save the world”, all that is required is for you –
to protest fear with your courage …
to protest selfishness with your generosity …
and to protest evil with your Love.
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