Howard Zinn coined that phrase. Do you know who Howard Zinn was? He was a great scholar and social reformer who studied social disobedience. His interest was in change through non-violent demonstration and small change leading to eventual big change. We are so in need of big change right now as a species. A change in our thinking in order for our existence to be more aligned with Life and progress and expansion.
Life is pulling us and in some cases dragging us unwittingly along in this needed change of how we think. There is an evolutionary impulse prodding us to make the necessary changes for a sustainable existence on Mother Earth. Some of us are balancing surrender to that impulse with the confidence that by surrendering we are being deliberate in facilitating expansion and sustainable progress. Others are resisting this impulse and resting in a naive denial of who we are at our essence.
Do you believe in Spirit? I mean really believe in Spirit, like as in an innate knowing that you are Spirit? Most people would answer that question affirmatively, after all something like 92% of all humans believe there is something larger than us behind our existence. Yet collectively, we act as if we are separate from everything and asleep at the wheel most of the time. We have those brief moments that we feel connected to each other or Spirit, but before too very long we relapse into a mechanistic daily grind.
Why is that? Why is it that so many people can get some degree of connection to spirit on Sunday in their house of worship, and then Monday morning relapse into behavior that is so contradictory to the sermon they were taught just hours prior? Just look at how Corporate America or our Governing bodies behave!! Greed and Fear are the presiding states driving most of Corporate America and certainly our politicians. But don't take my word for it, do some research on your own.
Most people won't take it upon themselves to do the research. Most people won't even get curious about the way they feel. Most people have turned over their free will to some "authority" and in essence said "tell me what to do, tell me how to think, tell me how I should behave" which is in essence thinking they are neutral on a moving train. That is some scary stuff if that is the case.
The challenge is that taking ownership for your thoughts and connecting with your Spirit is pretty scary stuff, at least as it is perceived. It's just so foreign to our conditioned way of thinking. "Actions speak louder than words" is what we are taught, yet we forget that actions start from our thoughts and we end up doing some really stupid shit.
That is how deforestation takes place. That is how literally destroying entire eco-systems happens. That is how Bankers can commit criminal acts but face no punishment. That is why there is more student debt now than credit card debt. That is why dictators that the US subsidized with Billions of dollars were allowed to brutalize, torture and kill their own people all while the US government was completely aware of these atrocities.
The train is moving, and everyday that goes by is a stop we will never come back to. What are you doing in your sphere of influence to apply the brakes. You can't hold a thought pattern of "well I can't affect big government or big business or what is happening on the other side of the world". That is thinking your neutral, when in fact you are contributing to the perpetuation of the problem.
So, how do you get out of neutral? Go within, after all as one of my favorite spiritual teachers said, "If you do not go within, you go without". Go within, get quite, and ask yourself, "What will you have me do? What will you have me say? What will you have me be? If you will do this from an authentic place, you will get the answer. Then act on it from your heart and see what happens, it will be miraculous!!! But don't trust me, trust yourself!!!
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