[What did I learn today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self Love] What's in your soup of life?

There are three serious poisons in the soup of life - Anger, Greed and
Ignorance - Angel Kyodo Williams

Angel Kyodo Williams' work is an eye opener! She introduces what some may
call some radical concepts in her work as the founder of the Transformative
Institute. I have been inspired by her philosophy and teachings and have
been keeping an open mind to them over the past couple of months. Her work
to me resonated because she talks about transformation being an inside job!
It starts with me. Living from a heart centered place rather than an ego
centered one.

Today I worked with the awesome rural community group in Brasso Seco, The
drive from town is roughly two hours to the first point and today a driver
was appointed to take me as there was more driving to do once we got there.
The driver asked me a few questions about what we were doing in the rural
communities and the impact and results. Seemed a pretty simple set of
questions. Then he proceeded to preach to me about the importance of the
christian religion by tearing down every other one, why I need to be
morally and spiritually responsible and remember that people are full of
sin and evil! I started getting hot, sweat started pouring from under my
arms. I said to him, fear and ignorance are two main reasons for many of
the ways people act and think and at this point my view is that people are
fundamentally good including you so let's try to look at a new way of
viewing our fellow brothers and sisters! If we think people are
fundamentally full of sin and evil and that shapes our actions then boy oh
boy, that explains a lot of things that are happening in the world! I
choose to give people the benefit of the doubt and I know that I know that
I know that good never runs out, it may just change form

Peace!

-- Posted By Blogger to What did I learn today? Lessons on the Journey to
Unconditional Self Love on 4/08/2015 02:14:00 pm