Who are we?
What is reality?
What is the purpose of life?
How can we fulfill our own unique potential?
Who do we love to be and what do we love to do?
How can we create peace within ourselves and the world?
How can we create a world that is more loving, truthful and joyful?
What is going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace?
In other words, how can we live and enjoy life without maiming or killing each other?
The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the details of your experience. Look for them!
The 21st Century serves as a natural timeframe for building a dream, a vehicle for life in the New Millennium that will help transport mankind through the next 1,000 years in peace and safety.
Real Talk World (life) is about seeing where we are, deciding where we want to be, and getting from here to there. It does not have to be about right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. It does not have to be about comparing ourselves to one another. It does not have to be about comparing ourselves and one another to outside standards of being and performance. It does not have to be about fear, separation, competition and survival of the fittest. It does not have to be about seeing ourselves as victims and armoring ourselves against a hostile world. It does not have to be about sleepwalking through life or taking it for granted by mindlessly following an arbitrary set of “rules”. It does not have to be about living by value judgment and being controlled from the outside, in.
Instead, life can be about paying attention to our own unique experience and developing internal values over a lifetime of living and learning? It can be about playfulness, experimentation and paying attention to what works for us and what works against us, what we like versus what we don’t like. It can be about accepting our own unique being and authority. It can be about actively seeking the qualities of life and being we value most, our ideals, and actualizing them to the best of our ability. It can be about valuing our oneness as much as our individuality. It can be about valuing You, Me, Us and All That Is equally. It can be about survival AND evolution. It can be about consciously changing ourselves and the world for the better. It can be about living by value fulfillment and practicing idealism, learning how to control the expression of our energy from the inside, out.
I love You, Me, Us and All That Is
Make the Love Affirmation a daily ritual in your life and change the world for the better. The Catholic Sign of the Cross, where you touch your forehead, heart, left shoulder and right shoulder, while repeating: “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen”, is another ritual. In this ritual, the “Father” is God, the ”Son” is Jesus Christ, and the “Holy Spirit” is their loving Father/Son relationship. It feels good and right to value excellence when we see it in others but too often, when we repeat a ritualistic affirmation like the Catholic Sign of the Cross in a world that believes in comparison and competition, superiority and inferiority, too many of us get the sense that we’re ”nobody” looking up to “somebody”, and this is not good for us or our children. We feel left out of the Sacred Circle. We feel left out in the cold. Consequently, we try to make others feel that way with respect to us. We struggle to be “someone” at the expense of others.
In the Love Affirmation, everyone and everything is included in the Sacred Circle. No one or no thing is left out. In this affirmation, “You” and “Me” represent our individuality and “Us”, represents our oneness. “All That Is”, of course, includes All That Is! The word “You”, in the affirmation, can be anyone or anything you choose in the moment. It can be your spouse, your friend, your” enemy” or the world, whatever suits your fancy. Experiment. Be creative! I like to add, “Nothing we can ever say or do can keep us from being loved, unconditionally!” at the end of I love You, Me, Us and All That Is. This statement is from my Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love on Mt. St. Helena in northern California.
It doesn’t mean that, in human form, we can do whatever we please and get away with it. It hurts when we get hit and when we lose those close to us. There are things we like and things we don’t like, individually and collectively, and we need to respond to them appropriately.
Try the Love Affirmation; the proof of the pudding is in the taste!
External values of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment are to a child as training wheels are to a bicycle. They help us function until we learn to walk on our own, or in this case, think on our own.
In life and business, how many of us ask if what we are doing is good? Does it improve the quality of life and increase humanity’s chances for survival or does it undermine it?
Instead of limiting yourself to the question, what’s going to work best for “ME”, ask:
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us? This question takes YOU, ME and US (everyone and everything) into consideration.
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What is the best way to fulfill our own unique potential in support of the world and ourselves?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What is the best way to maintain the health and well-being of the planet and humanity?
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What is the best way for us to learn and grow? What are the most important things for us to learn?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What is the best and most sustainable way for us to relate to nature and the earth?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What is the best way for us to relate to each other as individuals and nations?)
The growing collapse of our economic and social system (increases in the number of people in the world and in jail, homelessness, joblessness, food shortages, disease, wars, global warming, unsustainable growth and the loss of wealth), can be laid at the feet of putting individuality and self-interest (ego) ahead of oneness and the common good. A similar imbalance occurs when we put the common good ahead of self-interest. Why not create a system that values both equally? By giving equal value to both our oneness and individuality, we make it possible to cooperate, not compete with one another. And by asking questions that include ALL of us, we not only acknowledge our oneness and individuality, we acknowledge our individual and collective roles, and responsibility, in co-creating our shared reality.
Active and thoughtful participation in the creation of our reality is the change we have been waiting for!
What defines success for you now - money, power and privilege or love, truth and joy? What do you WANT to define success for you? Whatever you choose will serve as the foundation for the creation of your reality, so choose as though the quality of your life depends on it – because it does! We can walk towards the brightness of light or run from the darkness of fear. The choice is ours.
Responsibility (response-ability, accountability, creativity and self-development) is the price of freedom, peace and long-term human survival. We can experience life as a burdensome journey of pain and suffering or a creative opportunity to learn and grow. As creative beings our ultimate challenge is to see where we are, decide where we want to be, and get from here to there, safely and responsibly.
We are both one with, and separate from, All That Is. We are not only the product of creation, we are creation itself!
Consciously Create Your Own Reality
Call love, truth and joy into your life and the world! Ask your Inner Self or the Consciousness of All That Is:
- Where is the love, truth and joy in my life?
- Where is the love, truth and joy in the world?
By calling love, truth and joy into the world and looking for (expecting) it, you create a place for it - a vacuum into which it can appear. Keep calling for it and keep looking for it until you see it. (See: Pete’s Creation Dreams)
Experiment with this natural (magical?) method of reality creation. Look for things you really want. For example, ask your inner self questions like, where is my confidence? Where is the Speaker in me? Where is the great writer, mother, father, teacher or basketball player in me? Do it out of love, joy and anticipation, not fear. Create the kind of world you want to live in! Create the kind of person you want to be!
There is no greater show of LOVE than the acknowledgment of power and worth in ourselves and others.
Conversely, there is no greater show of FEAR than the denial of power and worth in ourselves and others.
We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves and the world around us.
How we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.
The power of choice and the strength of perseverance (“Never give up!” – Winston Churchill) are the tools for creating positive change in ourselves, and the world!
Like everything else in life, take what you like and leave the rest.
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