| This article is built on contributions by friends. The initial | | | | much an issue as our response? We can make what |
| one is the quotation from Rick Beneteau that I recently | | | | we choose of any event for positive or negative |
| shared: "There is no road to the future. We are both | | | | result. |
| the traveler and the road-builder and the end | | | | My argument here is not that our world or our |
| destination is one of our own choosing." The other is | | | | experience of life should be viewed as "perfect." I do |
| news of an upcoming broadcast by my friend, Tina | | | | argue though that our concept of something more |
| Fiorda and her sister, Tilde Cameron, discussing "A | | | | fulfilling than present experience leads to the possibility |
| Book of Insight" on Para Explorer's Radio, 7:00 PM | | | | that something more is there in some form. I argue |
| PDT, Tuesday, July 13. | | | | further that our sensing of this presence - this all |
| I feel that I can never foretell my future, even though I | | | | embracing reality - is compelling to us all. |
| have some inkling of how it might develop and even | | | | We experience life in dualistic terms: all our |
| though things have often played out in surprising ways | | | | expressions imply an opposite. Therefore, we cannot |
| in accordance with what I initially desired. Though I | | | | speak of goodness without implying the contrast of |
| acknowledge myself as "the road-builder," the resulting | | | | evil: we cannot speak of courage without implying the |
| plan develops as I go along. The process is fluid, not | | | | possibility of fear: we cannot speak of love without |
| totally predetermined. I'm sure this understanding is part | | | | also knowing hate. Perhaps once we could, but we |
| of Rick's statement. The process for me is more art | | | | come into this life knowing discomfort, primarily |
| than craft, not to exalt it but simply to say that it | | | | experiencing love as relief from loneliness, hunger and |
| develops in response to events and to personal | | | | pain. |
| growth. This has to be somehow true for us all I think. | | | | The dualistic world of our existence is the victim's |
| Tina and Tilde experienced guiding insight not only | | | | world. Dualism ceases when we simply are love, no |
| because they are wonderful people but, most | | | | matter what, and when we pour out love from our |
| importantly, because they prepared themselves for it | | | | abundant, ever replenished store, no matter what. For |
| and then allowed themselves to be open to it. It was | | | | this evolution to happen we must initiate movement |
| neither something they struggled to obtain nor | | | | from childlike dependency to adult autonomy. Few of |
| something that came to them purely because they | | | | us do it all in one single moment: I experience myself |
| were worthy. The gift of insight is here for all of us to | | | | making this journey by steps from dependency into full |
| share, and we can share it through them and through | | | | and complete love. |
| others like them even without sensing direct | | | | Two other articles came to my attention while I |
| experience. It is all a matter of opening ourselves to | | | | prepared to write this piece. One was a Facebook |
| the message of universal love surrounding us always. | | | | posting of Lucinda Drayton's video version of "100,000 |
| I close myself to this message in so many little ways | | | | Angels by your Side." The other was an article by Guy |
| each moment. My closure to the universal message of | | | | Finley, posted in Wisdom a la Carte: "Regain your Right |
| love is so habitual that I am usually unaware of | | | | to be Self-Ruling!" posted on Wisdom a la Carte. |
| thoughts and actions that keep me walled away. My | | | | Surely it has taken a host of guardian angels to guide |
| thoughts and actions come from subconscious | | | | me this far in my life: I wish them fulfillment in their task |
| conviction that I am alone and abandoned in the | | | | and I intend to do all I can to make this possible. We will |
| universe; that no one can really love me and no one | | | | be road-builders in our lives no matter how we do it. |
| can really care. If I escape this conviction for a | | | | To build with mastery, without being overwhelmed by |
| moment, I scurry back into its false security the instant | | | | all around us, requires that we rule our lives as the truly |
| some unwelcome event occurs to convince me that | | | | autonomous beings we are born to be. |
| life is not totally positive and love filled. I find myself | | | | Be fully who you are! Build your road with purpose, |
| convinced by this "proof" that universal love cannot | | | | even though the destination waits to be realized! Know |
| exist if unpleasantness of any type exists. | | | | that you are surrounded by love as indeed you are |
| I'm remembering now the theological argument: "How | | | | love itself! Open yourself to love and then be love! |
| can an all-loving, all-wise God exist and evil also exist, | | | | That is all there is to it: it is both that simple and that |
| for how could such a perfect being create an | | | | awesome. |
| imperfect world?" But, is the world's perfection so | | | | |