| There are many reasons cited as to why you should | | | | you have free eagles soaring through your |
| help other people. Not many advise you to do it as | | | | imagination, is time spent dragging you both down. |
| an act of selfishness, but we do. It is wisely, skilfully | | | | The sick bird will scare you with pictures of |
| and divinely selfish to awaken people to their | | | | entrapment and suffering mortality. The eagle will lift |
| exceptional potential. | | | | you out of the stodginess and show you expanded |
| For a start, the greatest help you can offer a friend, | | | | horizons. Both are relaying a version of truth and you |
| a community, a nation or a planet is to express the | | | | have the choice which one you focus on. |
| original truth that burns uniquely at your centre. Until | | | | Although it is necessary sometimes to define a |
| you are self-centred enough to know what you | | | | problem before solving it, this should never be |
| stand for and courageous enough to stand up for it, | | | | confused with telling the old, old story of victim-hood |
| everything you offer will be middling shades of bland | | | | and struggle. A solution has a lightness and a sense |
| and mediocre flavours of lukewarm. | | | | of creative responsibility about it. It doesn't have the |
| Once you start following your bliss and moulding the | | | | stultifying pallor of fear or the debilitating urge to |
| clay of your being with eccentric passion, you start | | | | repeat the overwhelming odds stacked against it. |
| offering guidance to all those around you. Your mere | | | | Some people are perpetual 'Ancient Mariners' who |
| presence as a happy, focused, centred being is a | | | | just must tell the 'reality' of the monumental |
| source of encouragement. But many people | | | | unfairness of it all. You thrill at a fritillary butterfly and |
| attracted to your enlightened expression will bring | | | | they talk about the poisonous pesticides; you rejoice |
| along their baggage and be quite eager to leave it in | | | | in the hot summer and they counter with global |
| your locker. | | | | warming theories; you sing the praises of the sunset |
| Thousands of sunsets could be wasted swilling | | | | and their head is filled with the air-borne pollutants |
| around with them in pointless pools of argument and | | | | that deepen the colour. If you offer them fresh new |
| stodgy puddles of unfairness and deep swamps of | | | | tales of the majesty of their divinity and they insist |
| hopelessness. And each wasted sunset delays the | | | | on rejecting it for the melancholy comfort of their |
| fulfillment of your dance and their dance. If you want | | | | suffering, do not join them there out of a sense of |
| to help, don't jump in the swamp and wallow, but | | | | misguided compassion. |
| give them a hand up by resolutely recognising their | | | | Keep always in the radiant certainty of your centre |
| divinity. | | | | and if the other dancer refuses to acknowledge their |
| Everyone knows of, and yearns for, that feeling of | | | | exceptional potential and insists on dancing small with |
| deep belonging that remembering your god-hood | | | | a bubble-wrapped god inside them, then bless them |
| brings. And the moment you find the access shaft to | | | | and let them go. Planet earth is not best-used as a |
| the mine of someone's passion, you are digging divine | | | | battlefield for proving how tenaciously buoyant you |
| diamonds in seconds. As soon as eyes light up with | | | | can be despite all the small-minded negativity fired at |
| enthusiasm and voices rise with eagerness, the spirit | | | | you. It is better as a playground where you can |
| starts to expand and the air is tinged with | | | | dance with lively, excited, confident minds that share |
| champagne. It is like the aroma of freshly-cooked | | | | your belief in the exceptional potential of all humans. |
| bread to the hunger of the soul. | | | | Together you can create extraordinary landscapes of |
| There is a god hiding in everyone. If you don't want | | | | love. |
| to lose your life in tedious mediocrity, find the hidden | | | | Be divinely selfish, for this seeming paradox is true. In |
| gods and celebrate them. The clearer you link up the | | | | serving your own deepest interest, you will best |
| circuit, god-centre to god-centre, the stronger the | | | | enable the other dancer to see the potential of their |
| flow of electrical divinity will be. All conversations to | | | | own mighty truth. You help them, not by joining |
| do with the fulfillment of desire, the appreciation of | | | | them in their imagined suffering but by demonstrating |
| life and the ecstasy of love come from the | | | | a different way of looking at the situation based on |
| god-centre. All conversations relating to the stupidity | | | | their god strength. The more you surround yourself |
| of governments, the unreliability of markets and the | | | | with people who want to be the best they can, the |
| unreasonableness of workloads dampen the flow. | | | | faster you will unleash the full reach of your |
| Time spent talking about birds in sick cages, when | | | | staggering potential. |