Begin Within.

So lost. 

Soft clay pots on the wheel, we have lost our center.

We have deformed.

We are degenerating.

We are beginning to disintegrate and the shrapnel is flung hither and yon making an enormous mess of everything. Every day brings with it another one or two WTF? events brought on by, ours truly, humanity. 

How do you stop a single environmental disaster?

How do you stop global warming?

How do you stop people from harming and murdering others?

How do you stop war?

How do you stop hate, once seeded, from rooting, and growing, and reproducing.

How do you stop the greed?

Does any of it ever stop?

Does it even wane?

Are we supposed to just get used to it?

Will it only get worse?

It appears to me ~ the chaos will only deepen and spread. Like a breached oil well, its tar-black darkness will continue to invade and threaten the pure and crystalline waters of our peace, joy and happiness. We are trapped birds in a mire of situations that are beyond our control. Our wings are rendered useless.

But there is a way out.

The way out is within.

We are more than the mere clay vessels of our flesh and bones. Something fills us. Something beyond time and space. Something beyond limitation. Buried deep under impenetrable layers of distraction and delusions - something eternal and holy. 

We are given a choice. We can live our life denying the existence of our true essence, 

or 

we can recognize it. 

Once we recognize we are something more, we have yet another choice. 

We can ignore and neglect this aspect of ourselves - know that it is there but make it secondary to the distractions and delusions of our physical reality and ego, 

or 

we can cultivate it.

We must drop all the disguises; our character traits, job titles, income, gender, sexual preferences, political party, obligations, thoughts, and beliefs, and get real.

Set aside 5 measly minutes at the beginning of your day, to acknowledge, connect and center your being around that still, small point of Infinite Light. 

Put yourself into that space, that inner connection with God... the One... the Tao... the Universe... the Nameless Creator... and what follows is wisdom and right purpose in your actions and speech. Your shift into that space, creates permission for others to shift into that space.

Cultivating our infinite self tethers us to the Truth. Denying or ignoring it, leaves us floundering in the flotsum.

It is our first and last and only resort. It is the only thing that separates oil from water, the wheat from the chaff.

Namaste,

C H E Z