Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 30

It is important to realize that not everyone is meant to travel into the very heart of human darkness.  To directly witness and work among the most intense brutality and human suffering, we have to be truly ready.  We have to prepare our own minds.  We have to train our own minds to withstand the magnitude of the darkness that we will encounter.  If we are not adequately prepared, we will be overwhelmed in our own spirit when confronting the extreme cruelty in which human beings engage.

What is needed is a culture of compassion.  Our selfless acts of love, however small and intimate, are manifestations of the infinite spirit and its love for humankind.  They are the rekindling spirit in motion, flowing forward in the time stream with vast powers of proliferation, with ineffable powers to awaken and to heal.  If everyone committed to one additional act of compassion a day, even if it were only bringing a smile to the heart of another who is unhappy or afflicted, our personal and collective human consciousness would begin to expand.  The seeds of a new human culture of compassion could take root.

For true and lasting change, whether in our individual or collective lives, we need the intervention of spiritual powers.  Spirit is foundational to life.  It is foundational to health and happiness.  It is beyond the mind, yet charged with perfect intelligence, unlimited in its creative and generative capacities.  Nothing in human life changes without the movement and transformational influence of spirit.