Loved your response, the truthful statement of your perspective. I agree, too, that it’s neither necessary nor even desirable for the rose to admire the sunflower to the extent that it wants to be like it — no longer content within its rose-ness. I enjoy the diverse beauty of the garden, where new flowers, new scents, new ways of being are ever on display.

When it comes to the superficial (a perspective) outplayings of externals your points are well taken — from your perspective, of course. You display integrity in stating them.

The “other-ness” to which I referred abides on deeper levels, in the emptiness, if you will. From there, all souls, all beings radiate an innocent beauty — one which exists only in potential for most of us — for all of us, at one time or another. When one abides there in any moment, this beauty is all that’s seen.

Here in Matrix-land, we’re all lost at some point, many for the entire current life. Thus, we neither see nor interact with this underlying beauty, many going so far as to commit heinous acts. To not treat any being with kindness — including the self — can be seen as heinous, depending on how deep we go.

What I perceive to be the missing piece is witnessing how the emptiness acts & speaks when given freedom to do that — the Dance of Source. Those so firmly aware on that level of the emptiness are often those through whom correcting action or words may flow, redirecting the negative action being perceived. By knowing they truly know nothing, this deeper flow is enabled, & since Source is universally benevolent, corrective acts can naturally flow.

The trick is in staying in the personal now moment & what’s being encountered, there, for to attempt to take on the world’s problems in toto does not serve the world or the person. It puts us on anxious overwhelm. As we trust Source to dance us, just the right bits come before us with perfect divine timing. Sometimes action flows through us, sometimes not. No methods or philosophies can offer either knowledge or guidance, as no set way of being exists at these depths of perpetual flow. (Thus, the ability to know nothing.)

Thanks for sharing, Jack. I’m enjoying the flow, here. As long as someone maintains the integrity into which they’re guided, true communion is enabled to flow on deeper levels.

Namaste

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