Around the world today, millions if not billions of individuals are being consumed by negativity. The world and our relationship to the cosmos always run through cycles of increased or decreased activity. Right now we are in a cycle of increased activity where many people are stirred up. In such stirring there exists the possibility of increased conflict, but also of increased consciousness -- although it is conflict that seems more prevalent.
We may wish this world wasn't the way it is. But we must realize the world is the way it is because we the way we are. We may profess high ideals, but that doesn't change what we do and pursue as long as we remain unconscious to the will of negativity within us.
Negativity is a consuming energy that seems to create life, but actually drains it. It promises to create something new to escape the pain of it, when all it does is create increasing conflict where the pain is enhanced. At some point an aspirant must realize, "I just can't be like that anymore, but I don't know how to stop! I look out at the world and all its problems and ask, 'What am I supposed to do??'"
As sincere seekers we arrive at a certain peace when we finally understand that our first task is always to be as attentive as we can be to any part of us that tells us the way to get rid of the negativity we feel is to carry out what it promises will bring an end to itself. We realize there is no end to that endeavor. That nature lives in a world of imagination, producing imaginary outcomes. When we passively obey, it's inevitable that the imagined outcome will crash down, leading that nature to then produce another plan that's bound to fail.
The clearer this becomes, the more we possess our own life. We don't passively pounce or passively postpone or passively lend ourselves to something that promises a better tomorrow that never comes. The new man, the new woman isn't passive to anything at all, save to the light in the moment -- that Divine gift of revelation -- that allows them to see and be actively attentive to what is welling up within them.
Then we are actively present to the revelation instead of passively asleep to the false promise that tells us how to escape what we see in ourselves and the world. That is the opening to real transformation within us, and in turn, the beginning of the change we hope to see around us.
