Lift up your spirits, with a little spot of soul. By Tijn Touber
A friend of mine stutters. He is also a bit clumsy, but everybody loves Paul. The other day Paul had to give a speech, the first – and maybe the last – he ever gave. His boss, for whom he had worked for over twenty years, was going to leave the company and Paul was very sad to see him go.
At the reception in his boss’ honour, his successor gave a well prepared and witty speech. People smiled politely at the – not so spontaneous – jokes and intellectual wisecracks. After that it was Paul’s turn. Nervously he took the stage and tried to remember what he wanted to say. He fumbled for his notes, but couldn’t read them and decided to just try to express how much he loved his boss, that he had been like a father to him and how much he would miss him. Read more...
A good friend of mine calls himself a “light worker”. He constantly travels the world to help people find the light inside them selves again. For some reason however, whenever he leaves a country usually something dramatic happens. The other day he was in Palestine where he did a praying session with a large group of people. Two days later torrential rains caused a mudslide and four people died on the very spot where he had done his healing session. I wondered: if our world is kept together by polarity (yin/yang; minus/plus; zero/one; matter/anti-matter), could it be that whenever my friend brings more light to some place, something or someone else automatically ends up in the dark? Somehow the overall balance has to be kept, right? If that is the case, then what good is my friend doing? We talked about this for many hours until another friend offered a beautiful insight. She said: “Our world doesn’t need the be saved, it needs to be loved.” What she meant to say, was that whenever we try to save someone, we judge that person as being wrong, bad, dark, victim, etc. We don’t see the person for what they really are, but reduce them to a fragment of the whole. This is how we create polarity and duality: good/bad; yin/yang; black/white, etc. The only way to escape from this dualistic mind set, is to go beyond all polarities to a place of oneness. Love does that. It doesn’t judge. It includes everything and everyone. When all are included, there is no need for anyone to stand in the dark. When no one stands in the dark, no one needs to be saved. Read more...
