Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Imagine all those self help books on the NY Times best seller list from the last 30 years boiled down to the contents of this blog and you pretty much have all you need to personally inhabit the skin you’ve been given in the time you’ve been alotted on this planet.
You have three primary tasks in this life, three concepts to get behind and support, three connective threads that will follow you until you pass on to whatever afterlife is to come: to learn as much about yourself and the world around you as humanly possible, cultivate your garden and do no harm to others.
Conversely, we as humans do the opposite. Now might be a good as time as any to elucidate the opposite of two of the three things, and a defintion of the third that I’ve listed above so that you know in this season and It’s Reason precisely what it is most of us DO, do..
The opposite of learning as much about yourself and the world around you is just that. Living in denial, judging others, more readily seeing differences rather than similarities between you and those you come into contact with, ignoring the signposts both literal and figurative that allow you to navigate through the terrain of your life: psychological, emotional, intellectual, communicative, intuitive, etc. Anything you may ignore or deny is the opposite of learning as much about yourself and the world in which you live.
The opposite of cultivating your garden is, again, just that. The lack of personal, professional and spiritual enrichment you not only can draw to your self but you that you perhaps, give off, or emit to others. Not learning that new hobby, not researching that new concept, recipe, idea, mode of communicating or behaving because it’s not feaseable within the framework of life you’ve constructed for yourself to maintain, not offering a kind word, not coming out of yourself to face new people or new experiences, etc. Anything that closes you off from anything is the opposite of cultivating your garden.
Finally, the defintion of doing harm to others is very simply put anything intended or unintended done with any level of ignorance or absolute malice injurious, whether accidental or on purpose to hurt or harm another. The opposite, then, is any good that can be done for another or towards another.
I can itemize the above two opposites for you specifically, but the third one’s quite the biggie and something I have blogged about many many times before. How do you know whether something you’ve done or said is injurious? A good indicator of this is the golden rule, as a sub-category or subheading of this third item.. If it would hurt you, it would hurt others.
Therefore now that I’ve given you the tools you need to go out into this world and live life the best way you can: as a self-actualized, thinking, feeling individual of good conscious, please find the time to print this out, study it and take it with you into 2012.
After all, there is a reason for this season and if you’re wondering what it is, it is indeed to be as close to human perfection, we – as feeble human beings can be: Christ-like, innocent and a joy to our Father and those around us. Everything else? Another blog for another time. Pretty big shoes to fill. But there’s no pressure, so take it easy, okay. . . .? I will make this simple for you. . . I don’t think I accomplish all that either. But we ALL can try!
Blessings, peace and love to you and yours in this season and in Its Reason.
MJC
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