What saddens me is this false sense of ego and superiority. God bless America? Really? Not like this.

We live in a world where we're more interconnected than ever. We can't afford to see ourselves as separate, as superior but what I'm learning is that that's what keeps the ego alive (this separateness) and the ego lies within the individual and the collective. There is this defensive "no I need to keep me and mine".

The irony is that religion is all really based on the same thing.. or at least it should be: Love, Compassion, Life, Humanity?

I was literally just reading this passage from a book by Eckhart Tolle "A New Earth" in which he states:

...Here it become obvious that the human ego in its collective aspect as "us" against "them" is even more insane than the "me", the individual ego, although the mechanism is the same. By far the greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

Maybe, but within the human realm I think it is something that may always exist. Perhaps all we can do is be in acceptance with it and cultivate a stronger sense of consciousness and awareness within it.

I'm trying not to get lost in the seemingly hopelessness of it all. Looking at the light of this situation, rather than just the dark, can show us that if we can collectively think in this way... than we can collectively think in a positive way.

In the words of Gandhi: "Hatred does not cease by hatred."

Thanks for listening.

Please watch, pass it on, think about it, talk about it, honor whatever it arises within you.