Our Only Lesson

eric mccarty
2 min readNov 4, 2024
Flower

Only lesson:

I’m not so sure that we’re as politically divided as we’re led to believe. Yet, it’s a contentious elections and sides have been drawn across the social and political aisle. But it seems that if actually talk to each other, a real conversation, we come to find that our differences aren’t a barrier at all, they’re more of an opportunity to lay aside our perceived grievances and come to know each other better.

it’s an opportunity to discover who we truly are as well.

of course not everyone will take this as an opportunity to learn about themselves, some will cling to an ego’s point of view through any cost, including making entire groups of people, not just wrong, but actually evil. It’s with this that they actually condemn themselves. Once that line is crossed they’re mind is divided in a chasm that’s almost impossible to mend.

yet still, we try.

and here’s the plan….

love each other.

forgive.

it’s really that simple.

but not always easy.

So we have to think of this as a practice, being mindful of our own thoughts and actions, asking ourselves what we’re demonstrating to others through our needs. We’re teachers, all of us, and students too, at once learning and offering lessons to each other through our every moment together.

what is it we wish to learn?

what are we teaching?

it’s that simple.

teach only love.

for that’s the only lesson.

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Peace, Eric

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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