Let Us Honor Multiplicity

There are so many ways of doing and being.

When will we learn to honor the multiplicity?

How will we grow, as humans…
in our ability to navigate each other’s differences?

How will we expand our bandwidth for the contrast and variation that defines us as humans?

How will we learn to cultivate “interconnectivity consciousness” instead of “separation consciousness”?

How will we learn to transcend our rigid, inflated egos… and instead open our hearts?

For with open hearts we can truly receive one another.
Truly embrace one another.
Truly accept one another.

How will we manage to loosen up our grip on our fixed sense of our identity…
so that we can be the *more* that we naturally are?

How will we sidestep our propensity to take sides?

How will we get to a place where we stop turning others into our adversaries?

When will we stop one upping and one downing?

Seeing ourselves as superior in our outlooks and perspectives?

Deriving status and significance from assuming WE have the answers…

*Presuming* WE are right.
And THEY are wrong.

These patterns so entrenched…
and shared by all groups.
A whole lot to have in common!!

The irony is, we participate in and perpetuate these patterns, without even realizing it.

In the process, we create harm, pain, and suffering, oppression, entirely unbeknownst.

It’s a case of, “forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”

That line in the Bible reminds us that people often sin and err with their eyes wide shut. With their left hand having no idea what their right hand is doing.

The thing is, technically it’s not, “forgive THEM Father…”
Because it’s not actually THEM doing it.
It’s US.
It’s WE.
It’s OURSELVES.

We don’t suspect for a second that our own lens is limited. Cloudy. Hazy. Fogged.

We ass-u-me we’re “all-seeing.”
We’re smug and secure in our sense of things.

And that is why the change we seek begins with us.
That is why we need to BE THE CHANGE we wish to see in the world.

We must stop being hypocrites…
Forever engaging in our own custom version of the very thing we’re criticizing.
Reifying that which we critique.

Only LOVE gets us out of this hypocrisy.
So let’s choose love.

Love + Oneness,
Naomi