If you're like me, it feels like we're in a time of division. Everyone has a different rock solid truth and we're each certain that if everyone else would just start thinking, believing, acting, BEING in alignment with that truth, the world would rest and return to the golden age and all would be well.
It feels like the seeking has amped up - which is understandable, considering how frenetic the energy is in the world, the daily changes, the uncertainty, the not sure what else to do but keep doing what we're doing until we can't anymore. So we turn to belief systems or self help practices - hunting for a soul coach to give us focus and certainty and, most importantly, answers. Answers on how to make it better or even answers on why it is the way it is.
Naturally, because we're in a time of division, along with the answers and the tools and the "this is the sign you've been looking for!," there are the warnings and the mud slinging - "Don't go to the other guys. They're wrong. They're evil. They just want your money. It will never really work. This is the ONLY way to peace/ joy/ happiness/ prosperity/ salvation."
And make no mistake. I too think - no, I KNOW my way is the only way to happiness.
Happily 😉, I know that my way is the only way for ME. Your "only" way could be quite different. As is hers and his and theirs.
And that is probably a large part of the difficulty. How can there be 8.3 billion truths? Don't I have to stand up and fight for my way? Because it's hard to imagine - when what I'm doing is working so well, and feels so good and free and connected, (usually) - it's hard to imagine why anyone would think a different format or belief system is better and I'm wrong!
This morning, a lovely analogy popped into my head.
Insisting everyone practice Happiness the way I practice Happiness (and yes, I'm using Happiness as a catch all world for the desired nirvana/connected trusting state of joy which I think is the goal of all belief systems) - insisting everyone practice Happiness my way, is like insisting that everyone has to speak Cymraeg. That no other language is the right language and if you don't speak Cymraeg, then you're never going to get a real job or have a good home or comfort in your old age, much less a restful afterlife.
And yet, Cymraeg is not a language that everyone in the world has the option to learn. 7.5 billion people probably don't even know what Cymraeg is. And not even everyone who was born in Cymru speaks Cymraeg, anyway. It's not a language that is automatically taught. One must choose to speak it, to learn it.
It's the same with belief systems. Where we're born starts us on the path to what we're exposed to, what we learn about, what is part of our culture. Then, as we grow, some of us learn there are other options, and those options may be presented in a positive light or in a negative one. And we may have the option to explore new systems, new languages, and see if one brings music to our soul. See if it makes sense in our world. See if it leads to Happiness.
And we may build our own language from a bunch of different ones we've been exposed to.
But we'll probably never encounter ALL of the different languages in the world. I may never ever even hear of the language that you grew up speaking; you may think my language is from a fantasy book.
In my language, in my practice, the important thing is that we are know we are loved, we are held, we are connected, regardless of which language we use to express that love. And that we can gather and communicate (maybe only with a smile and a nod, but still it's a smile) and maybe when we part we say - whoo, that language is beautiful but I'm sure glad I don't have to speak it! but at least we are parting amicably.
I hope I always send out a prayer of love and light, regardless of of the language I'm using for the prayer. And I hope you do to.
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