Dear Spiritual
Partner,
The coronavirus
has sent us all home, so to speak, to assess and re-assess who we are, what
we are doing, and why we are doing it. It has mandated a break for eight
billion of us from our mindless, urgent, spot-light focus on the
particulars of our lives and encouraged us to examine our lives with a flood-light,
so to speak. It shows us the little things in our lives from a more
accurate perspective. They are little things. Why then, do they appear so
large, important, and immediate? Time in isolation allows us to explore
these things, if we choose, yet there is no such thing as “isolation.”
All of us, all of
Life, and everything we encounter, have encountered, and will encounter
belongs to the Universe. They are the Universe. We belong to the
Universe. We are the Universe. What is there to be “isolated” from? Can wet
be isolated from water? “Time in isolation” is time with the Universe.
Every time, anytime, anywhere is time with the Universe. The coronavirus is
giving us opportunities to investigate this. If your experience at
home includes children, that is time with the Universe. If it includes
in-laws, that is time with the Universe. If you have no home to go to, that
is time with the Universe also.
I asked a friend
who had once been homeless to tell me his experience. “It was just God and
me,” he said. Rituals bring your attention to the present moment – your
never-ending “time with the Universe.” The coronavirus is bringing your
attention to the ritual that is your life so that you can use it consciously,
wisely, and lovingly.
The coronavirus is
bringing us together. “Nonsense!” booms the intellect. That is the OPPOSITE
of what you just proclaimed! We are NOT together when we are at home alone.
The limits of the intellect are becoming visible to hundreds of millions of
us as we become multisensory – able to perceive beyond the boundaries
of the five senses. Our perceptions of ourselves, the world, and the
Universe are changing forever. Our wisest clichés are becoming our
realities, for example, “We are all in this together,” and, more
accurately, “We are One.”
The coronavirus
ignites our delight and our joy in our fellow students in the Earth school.
We did not imagine how generous, creative, humorous, and loving
they are, even in very difficult times. We did not imagine how generous,
creative, humorous, and loving we are, even in very difficult times.
Generosity, sharing, kindness, and love are appearing everywhere. This is
one of my favorite examples: A state trooper stopped a car that was
speeding. He asked the young driver for her ID, and then why she was there
(her car had out of state licenses). She told him, “I am a doctor. I am
volunteering at the hospital.” “Stay in the car,” he told her. When he
returned, he handed her five masks that the State Police had issued to him.
She cried. He left without identifying himself.
Aren’t we humans amazing?
How many things like this have you heard about? How many have you seen? How
many have you done?
This is the miracle
of the coronavirus.
Love,
Gary
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