Ah. Pain is such a visceral experience and has the quality that overpowers - it takes much more love than fear to win along the journey. They may appear as yin and yang and equally opposing but the negative forces grab hold with much force because our human minds have caved into a system that is around us and has bowed to the sensationalism that is that negative force - we become consumed by the negative because there seems to be an innate need for people to feel sorry for us and in turn we feel sorry for them.
There needs to be a complete paradigm shift into the age of love and understanding, a deeper sense of connectedness and honouring. The difficult thing about love is that is energy is so light and clear that it is hard to grasp its qualities and because of this does not have the same appeal - we can't put our hands on purity but we can with mud :)
The texture and quality of love is light and although it shines from within and in all things we react mostly to the darkness and the fear. We often remember the hurtful things that were said to us, the wrongs people have done to us in our lives, the illnesses that cripple but we often forget the beauty and the kindness and the smiles and the nature that supports us, mother earth that embraces us - no this is all too beautiful for us to ponder - it is so beautiful in fact that people are unsure about themselves in the purity of its awareness and we sink back into the darkness that is comfortable since we can relate to our short comings because we see those in other people!! You see the negative holds its power BECAUSE OF OUR OWN JUDGEMENTS ON OTHERS!
You see if you begin looking at life with beauty, light and love you begin to shift your very consciousness and its ability to perceive the outside world - you see that love is truly the answer and to remain in it is the best service you can offer to mankind because in this love you can no longer see the pain, destruction, and fear but only the outcome of actions and you can see the inherent love and goodness in each person - overlooking the shortcomings and be there for them.
The most interesting experience I had in this movement was setting up a meditation space outside of the sphere of the stage and events (at Occupy Victoria) and what happened was that I would simply sit there - what happened next was beautiful! People would sit and express themeslves, crying, hating, frustrated and after calmness! THEY JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO LISTEN!!!! and in their cry for help they came back to the stillness. The tsunami of emotions reached the end of its own resistance and naturally dissipated. In that moment they returned to being what we all are - LOVE ENCAPSULATED IN HUMAN FORM!!!!!
Love WILL conquer all but that love has to come from within and in this solidifying love the clarity of this expression can act as a mirror for all the world to look at themselves and one day each and every single person will see themselves clearly in that mirror. For now what we can do is work best as cleaning our own mirror and walking as a clear reflection in our own surrounds. OM.