What Can We Do?

What can we do?

what can we do? That’s an important to question to ask these days, a time of turmoil in so many ways, across the world there’s discord and violence, and here at home we’re plagued by political infighting and a what feels like a cold civil world between those with different visions for our country. What can we personally do to help heal a nation, our neighbors, the world?

anything?

of course I don’t have an answer, it’s too large a problem for any solution I might be able to put forward — yet I know what I can do, for myself alone at least, and then perhaps I can offer the benefits gained within to others, in some subtle ways at first, maybe a smile given to a stranger, or sincerely listening to the concerns of others who see things quite differently than I do. Small things, moments really, adding up to a daily affair, a lifetime of offering peace to others. It’s what I can do.

it’s what we can do.

let’s start by being a bit selfish, in a certain way at least, and by this I mean let’s focus on ourselves at first, bringing a sense of peace and well-being into our lives and then we turn this light towards others. For me this is done through meditation, it’s a healing art, and more so it’s an insightful practice that opens me to aspects of reality that I long ignored, or had no means of truly understanding. Meditation caused a deep relaxation of my concerns about myself, my creative potential, and how I relate to others. There simply came an ease and lightness of being…