the link between peace, love and truth

Truth lies not merely in words.

Truth lies within the energy of peace.

We can name the energy of peace, love.

-From the Way of the Voice of Peace

Peace is a state of being. Love is an energy. These two go hand-in-hand. When you are in a state of peace, you will experience the energy of love. When you are experiencing the energy of love, then you will be in a state of peace.

When you are at peace, the energy of love informs your actions. It simply comes through you. One only needs to let go of need. There is no agenda and no judgement in your actions. Every action comes from an intention of nurturing the spirit. The intellectual mind simply becomes the servant of the spirit to perform the action.

When acting in such a way as to only move through this life with the intention of nurturing the spirit instead of fulfilling the needs of the intellectual mind, we will only speak truth.

Speaking only truth brings us to a state of peace and the experience of love.

These three; peace, love, and truth are intimately connected.

asking the right questions

I have learned some time ago that when I say " I need to figure this out" that I am on the wrong track. So instead of looking for the answers to things, I look for the right questions to ask myself and then simply observe what shows up. It is important to observe without judgement, let it simply be an observation.

With this said, a question I ask myself on a regular basis after completing an action is " Do I feel better or am I better off because of what I just did?" After asking this question, say one thousand times, it will then lead me to be able to ask the question " Is what I am about to do going to leave me feeling better or being better off by doing it?"

Asking these types of questions of ourselves leads us to living a life of awareness, which in turn leads to growth and transformation, which in turn leads us to good health and happiness.

individual and collective trauma

We recently had a devastating flood here in Vermont due to a tropical storm in which many people lost everything, farmers have lost their crops and the infrastructure of the state has been badly damaged. As I write this, in Texas there are wildfires that have destroyed 1000 homes.

Due to this people are experiencing both individual and collective trauma. Even if one has not been personally affected, it is near impossible to not feel the effects while your friends, neighbors and community are suffering.

This is far from a pleasant experience for anyone. What is important is to go through it without either trying to distract from or ignore it.

We must feel what we are feeling, as we are feeling it. Then, as I say in The Way of the Voice of Peace, do not try to change that feeling, simply experience and accept it as it is.

If we are going through a traumatic event it is appropriate to feel uncomfortable in some way. We can feel that unpleasant feeling yet we do not have to act because of it. Once we become aware of what is actually going on inside our own skin, we want to then make a choice for our next action to be one in which it brings us to a feeling we want. We are looking to avoid getting caught up in the feeling and escalating it. We simply want to be aware of the feeling, detach and choose our next action.

Why is this so important? Because when all is said and done, we do not want to be carrying this trauma with us. Our goal is to be clear and return to our normal state of being. If we get caught up without being aware of what is going on within us, then when we settle down, we will not be able to settle to our original state prior to the traumatic events.

Life is sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. Sometimes it goes smooth and sometimes it is traumatic. This is living life in this world. How we deal with a particular event as we are going through it and how we choose to act will determine whether we come out of it healthy, happy and ready to deal with the next life event.

May you choose health and happiness.

blinded by perception

When all we are willing to see is our old perception of reality we become blind to what really is.