Which is easier?

Being right or being peaceful?  Many times being right entails judgement, being critical of a differing view or defending your position.  Judgement, being critical or defending your position are never easy feelings, but for a lot of people they have become more habitual than being peaceful or content.  In my experience, for most people it becomes their default setting of operating mode.  And it's backwards.

It's so much easier to be in a state of ease, peace, and contentment but we lose connection with the effectiveness of these states because of conditioned beliefs about the way life works.  Beliefs are nothing more than stories we tell ourselves or someone else tells us and at some point we take them to be real.  People used to believe that the earth was flat and that the Universe including the Sun revolved around the earth.  So, what are today's "the earth is flat" beliefs?

What about disease can be predicted by family genetics?  What about any one of the organized religions has a monopoly on Truth?  These two alone will set a lot of people off.  More people have died as a result of differences in religious beliefs than any other reason in the history of mankind.  Is that progressive or even sustainable?  95% of humans are genetically perfect, and research has shown that the environment of a family is predictive of family disease like Heart, Diabetes and even Cancer as opposed to genetics.  Children adopted into families contract these diseases at the same rates as the adoptive family members even though their own biological families have no history of the disease.

So, just for grins, just for fun, what do you suppose life would be like if every human being believed that we are all connected to each other, as a matter of fact, what if we believed we are all connected to every living thing?  Think about it.  How would we interact with each other differently?  How would we treat the environment?  How would we treat animals?  Would planes fly into buildings?  Would school shootings be happening that the rate they are?  Would we build a fence between the US and Mexico?

I could be wrong, but I think we would be living life in a completely different manner.  We would treat each other as we would want to be treated, you know the golden rule.  So much of today's culture and structure would be obsolete.  Our entire economy would be different.  Everything we did, would be more conscious.  A lot of the structures we have are falling apart as a result of the Universe, GOD or Source being self correcting towards a sustainable and progressive way of life.  As individuals that are part of the Universe, we either resist, or we get on board and align with life.

My Son and I went and saw the Movie "Lone Survivor" this past weekend.  The most profound messsage that I received from the movie was the action taken by one Afghanistan tribal leader and consequently his village to protect Marcus Luttrell, the lone Navy Seal survivor.  Pashtunwali is a tradition that is thousands of years old that is made up of principles, two of which are Hospitality and Asylum.  These principles saved Luttrell's life, a complete stranger and someone that just by helping him endangered the entire village.  These two principles are very much grounded in all of us being connected.

When you Align with Life, Life aligns with you and the Universe conspires on your behalf to move you in a progressive and forward path.  When you resist Life, the Universe kicks you in the ass or completely upends you, and unfortunately too many people attribute that to life happening to them.  Every relationship is a lesson for the taking, so step up and learn the wisdom of each lesson with the curiosity that paints a clear picture for you.  That Curiosity resides in peace, grace, contentment and Love rather than judgement, Fear and being right.  And it really is a lot easier.