Every Choice You Make.....

The same information coming from different sources lends integrity to the information.  This is from an older book by Gregg Braden called WALKING BETWEEN THE WORLDS, The Science of Compassion.  These quotes are about making choices for compassion and how it effects the world around us and moves out in ever widening ripples of influence in the world.

“Each time someone else opens up enough to recognize that they have a choice in how they respond to life, your choice of compassion assures that they have another possibility to select from...
Someone must do it first.  Someone must take the initiative to move beyond the cycle of old choices and responses and recognize the opportunity of a higher response to life’s offering.”

Every choice you make for love and compassion has influence beyond your imagination.  But even if it just made one person feel better wouldn’t that be enough?

Your Sphere of Influence...

It is important to remember how much of an influence we are in the world.  And I say world because of the global influence of the internet, the airplane...  instant access to one another across the entire globe.   We don’t realize how much our connections with each other touch not only those close to us but circles out like ripples in the pond touching far shores.  Take facebook alone,  You make a comment or post an image, your friends see it, they post it because its cool or not cool, how many more then see it and repost it again.  And if you take into account energy that moves out from us, our thoughts, our auras touching each other and the planet, our sphere of influence widens...  be aware of your sphere of influence...  be aware of how you affect people...

A Job for You...

Do you watch the news, or perhaps, don’t watch the news anymore because you see all the pain, and violence, and terrible things happening, nasty weather, earthquakes.   OMG it’s just too much... the world is going to hell in a handbasket (whatever that means).  You are probably tired of me telling you that these are the birth pangs of a world we would really want to live in.  Well I have a job for you.   It has a couple of parts to it.  First of all your job is to stay positive.  Allow yourself to settle into a peaceful acceptance of what is and believe with all your heart that it is change for the better.  
And the second part of your job is to do something about it.   Now I totally understand we are not all Martin Luther King Junior, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Jesus, any of the other known heroes.   But you have opinions, ideas.  I think a lot of people understand what is going on with politics.  What I want you to do is think about what you would do with a particular world/national/local/community/personal challenge.  Think about what could be done to improve or change that situation using love, fairness, honesty, unity as your basis for change.  Then think about all of the people you influence.  Your spouse, your friend, your sibling, your child, your grandchild.   Break the subject to them.  Tell them there are solutions to the worlds’ problems that don’t involve hate/violence/exploitation.  If you have thought of a solution tell them this is what you would do.   You may not have the courage or the ability to do it yourself.   Ask them to come up with their own ideas. You may be the one that sparks the fire within a child that comes up with the solution to hunger, energy, peace...   It doesn’t matter if it was your idea, if you were not the one to bring it about.  The earth holds your energy....  The world knows.....
A quote from Wilfred A. Peterson that I used in 1962 during a high school graduation speech.  “As you throw the weight of your influence on the side of the good, the true and the beautiful, your life will go on in others, bigger, finer, nobler, than you ever dared to be...”