(Originally posted in Facebook September 2020)
In meditation this morning I felt so much wellbeing and joy to be back in France and in the beautiful Pyrenees. At the same time the conflicting emotion of deep grief arose. Grief for what’s happening across the planet – division, separation, schisms, repression, oppression, control, lack of trust, lawlessness, corruption in the highest echelons, and the breakdown of society.
We need to urgently look inside at any inner division, splitting, separation and places where we aren’t in harmony speaking and living our truth and heal these. Unless we have inner harmony, we are not going to see any outer harmony. There can be no ‘us’ and ‘them’ if we are to evolve.
We need to leave duality behind and accept what is happening, so we aren’t resisting it. From a place of accepting what is, we can say, “I don’t agree and I’m going to do something else instead”. But without projecting the enemy out there.
Living in community with trustworthy friends is ideal for flagging up inappropriate childhood coping mechanisms and causing us to act unconsciously as happened to me recently. With awareness that was transformed and healed. I pray we can find a way to return to oneness without too much more separation and suffering.”