Suffering Has A Noble Cause.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Eckhart Tolle spoke of an emerging consciousness in his book A New Earth.

At the time of reading, I couldn’t see it.

Now I do.

Do you see it?

Do you see that as a species we have expanded to such a degree in consumerism that we are about to burst?

That our natural exploration of how far we can go with commodities and technology has reached a point of insatiability.

Why so much depression?

Why so much malaise?

Why all those pills?

Dieseases?

Ailments?

War?

Yet.

Some of us, many of us, are waking up.

Waking up through this depression, this dissatisfaction, this insatiable appetite.

If we were satisfied we probably wouldn’t look. If we were forever happy (no one is forever happy) why would we question?

It is through this suffering that we see we have become so far removed from the ‘spirit of things’.

It’s never about the things.

The way ‘things’ make us feel is temporary.

We get it, we are happy, we lose it, we are sad. Or we simply replace everything and everyone.

Rinse and repeat.

Yet the ‘spirit of things’ exists aside of the things.

We don’t tend to get taught this in our culture, yet our indigenous ancestors knew this well.

They knew very, very well, that THEY ARE the spirit of things.

Everything is the spirit of things.

It doesn’t come with ‘something’ and it doesn’t leave.

They didn’t hurt the planet because they could feel her ‘spirit’.

The very thing we are all out there chasing in order to feel something, is actually right back where we started.

And we chose this adventure!

We’ve been on this rollercoaster of ‘how far can we go’ for a long time.

It’s been thrilling.

But now…

We’ve gone very very far, from the spirit within.

Not that we seperate, we simply forget.

And now the call is to come home.

It is calling: through suffering.

This isn’t a problem of the 21st century that will be fixed by the same consciousness that created it.

This dis-ease IS the right response to a fabricated sense of happiness and fulfilment.

We know, intuitively, this is not it.

It is in this remembering that the world will change.

The connection back to the ‘spirit of things’ is an innate feeling of connection, satisfaction & peace.

It is possible.

It absolutely is possible to change where we place our attention, and thus changing how our world currently works.

Our trajectory has been out.

What if we expand inwards?

We may have to face actually feeling our dissatisfaction, rather than avoid.

Through, and deeper into the dark void of the limitless unknown, there is a small voice; it’s very quiet, it has been whispering all along that there is more than what you have known.

It is this knowing that will change the world.

This is what our ancestors knew, that they are the spirit of the land, the same spirit as their neighbour, as the bird and the deer.

This collective recognition of who we truly are, has all the potential to create a New Earth.