Dare to be aware

Dare to be aware

Aware of peace

Dare to be aware

Aware of love

Dare to be aware

Aware of beauty

Dare to be aware

Aware of creativity

In the morning  when we wake

We become aware of all duties lying ahead

We need breakfast; to go to the toilet;

We need to get ready to go to work;

Become aware of the quarrels we had;

Of all the problems we face;

Aware of our fears and worries.

And our awareness of the peace

That surrounds us is blurred

And the awareness of the love

in our heart is blurred

And the awareness of the beauty

of the skies and trees is blurred

And the awareness of creativity

roaming in our imagination is blurred.

Oh my, let me tomorrow morning

Dare to put aside

the small things that anger me

The small things that worry me

The small things that cause fear

The small duties that await me

And let me dare to be aware

Of the sea of peace

Of the ocean of love

Of the expansion of beauty

Of the endless creativity

That is here right now for me.

And will likely be here tomorrow morning too…

A global heart

I just watched Michael Beckwith on a youtube video
and he called the internet the global brain.
In times of this pandemic, the global brain connects the world.

Then he went on saying that what we need to add to that global brain is:

The global heart!

We can lift ourselves up from the level of fear.
As we wash our hands, we can wash away our reptilian brain level responses. Surely we need to go shopping, but we do not need to take it all from the shelves. Surely we need to take precautions against Covid19 but we do not have to be consumed by fear. We can wash our inside too and connect to the Creative Force of this world. We have come here for a reason and somehow in these times, we are given more time to make it still, to make it quiet inside and (re)connect to our inner inspirational, powerful self, to our soul.

Even though we can not physically be together we still can connect, we can be kind and kindness and compassion are big boosters of health. If we would have a comparative study between one group of patients receiving all recommended vitamins and another group practising daily lots of genuine simple random acts of kindness, I am convinced that the immune system would be much stronger and more balanced in the latter group.

Let us all add a lot of heart to the internet; let the internet become more heart than brain. Let us spread lavishly messages of hope, of compassion, of kindness, of love, of harmony. Enough of fear-mongering, enough of scaremongering. In Canada, they coined the term, care-mongering and that is what we need. Care, care, care, love, love, love, kindness, kindness, kindness.

Let us all stay safe, take proper preventive measures that can help control the pandemic, but do not allow yourself to wither away in fear, in worry or anxiety. Let us make silent within, connect to the universe with all its beauty and energy and start a ripple of kindness, then a small wave, then a big wave and then a giant wave. Each ripple or wave may contribute in a major way to the upcoming kindness revolution.

Keep it up. Keep it cool. :)

Rain

After a period of drought for at least a few weeks now, this morning we had a small thunderstorm with a good downpour of about 30 to 40 minutes.
For the last two weeks, I had been sprinkling water to parts of my lawn and some of the beautifully flowering plants, some of the younger trees regularly.

Rain, this morning was not only for the flowers and wonderful trees, but it was also for each and every blade of grass, no matter in what corner it had grown, it was also for the weeds and shrubs. What amazing fairness of nature on display. Every single plant, tall or small, colourful or not, got their own share of this fantastic blessing.

What a wonderful lesson for mankind.

On a ship

While I cannot understand how anyone still has boarded a cruise ship after what happened to the Diamond Princess in February, it is a fact that now still thousands of people are stuck on cruise ships that are at sea and do not find any place to dock.

Every country, every port refuses to let the passengers and crew on land. Some good news came from Florida allowing the Zaandam and the Rotterdam to dock, but the war against the coronavirus is showing humanity's worst side.

Lives could be saved, but no one wants to commit. What happened to the Diamond Princess in Japan, was sending shivers over my spine, but the drama, the tragedy now seems worse with other ships.

Borders are closed, messages full of hatred are flooding the news article comments section and the social media. What would have seemed unthinkable violations of human rights, now seems to become a weird normal. People are dying alone in homes for the elderly, nobody allowed any visits. We were taken aback by the quite sudden pandemic, but there must be better ways, more creative solutions on how to deal with our elderly population in a safe and humane way.

Let us please come up with more humane preventive measures. While the stay-at-home policy may be an acceptable and effective way to prevent the spread of the disease, please keep things in place to preserve the sanity and humanity of humanity. It would be nice to read in the comments section of this post, creative ideas on how we can keep it all a bit more humane.