Another title that just flowed effortlessly out of me. Channeling? Seeing without looking? The same repackaged message as always? Just another way of saying be present, or live in the Now, or there is only Now? Yes, of course, with the caveat that words are only the map and not the territory. All my models are wrong; some are useful. Rain beating down again and again and again until I finally heard it though I was listening all the time. And it is not even raining today on this late January morning here in Seattle.
That is it. Just spread Love. It is our superpower. It is the undiscovered perpetual motion machine in all of us. Make a habit of spreading Love, even when you feel you have none, certainly not enough to share. It will refill, regrow, just like my green onions on the porch.
I have been meditating on Love for years, it is growing inside me. It is easier for me today to just give it away to total strangers. This daily practice coupled with deep ownership of my faults and recognition of the wide distribution of current Maslovian states in society at large (lots of folks don’t know where their next meal is coming from while others get to frolic in self-actualization-land) is so good for me and I really believe everyone else. We can afford it! We cannot afford to miss it.
I just texted a kind word to a friend, it came back to me two-fold (nice reply text and nice hug of a heart emoji). It cost nothing but a few seconds of opportunity cost and a teeny tiny fraction of a microgram of greenhouse gas release. Those pesky laws of thermodynamics! Those glorious laws of thermodynamics, for without them nothing would have value.
I said hello to a neighbor that I do not know raking leaves yesterday. I could tell her reply of good morning was warm and genuine and helped her. I gave her Love and she gave me back even more. Poof…magic! I did the same to another neighbor I do not know…maybe ten houses away. It was not so magical. That is totally okay, I refuse to believe that the world is worse off by engagement and Love-sharing. Chaos, tipping-point, butterfly effect, unknowable, all that, okay, it is possible, just really unlikely I believe.
I effortlessly now call strangers friends. Actually I can’t stop. Another cost-free perpetual motion machine just sitting there all along. I start every day with a minute of four daily gratitudes. Today number four was even “I am stopping with three” because the first three were so good and true and I was stumbling to find an equal number four. This is not a suicide-pact remember. This is also not rocket-science. We must cultivate good practices, good words, and good actions.
You are still reading? I haven’t lost you? Do you believe any of this? Join me now in re-entering the world, we will save ourselves via one interaction at a time. What else of real importance are you doing today anyway?
