With a new week approaching, I always like to focus in on what it is that I want to emulate going into the week ahead, or what I need to more consciously focus on in my life. What has been shown to me through others this past week? What has given me insight? How can I enlighten the people around me? In what ways can I be a source of joy for others? How can I ease their suffering and offer them something greater? How can I provide light to those feeling their way through the dark? As I had these thoughts in mind while reading last night- a phenomenal book by Ram Dass-Be Here Now– I came across such an eloquent summary of the power and need for love in our world; how contagious it is, how it truly does change us as people when we experience it, and how we can offer each other that experience and delight in it. When we recognize our connectedness as human beings, we begin to understand how acts of love not only transform those that we love on, but we realize that we are simultaneously growing and transforming, ourselves.
“The treasure of consciousness
The treasure of awareness.
If you don’t help other beings
cut through the illusion
because you’re through the illusion-
what else???
What else is there?”
-Ram Dass Be Here Now