Photo: Human DNA strand illustration.
Thought for the Week: Daniel Clarke Flynn makes a choice
‘When we practise living in the present, we have access to a greater wisdom.’
We are each unique, temporary and necessary manifestations of creation. It’s written in our brains’ DNA, the most developed example of DNA that we know of.
We live as these unique observers for a limited amount of time, in a creation that is in constant change. Yet we are always connected with all others, and with creation, in ways that we cannot detect with our five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
People throughout history have suggested that we each came from, and are directly connected to, eternal wisdom – consciousness beyond life, universal energy. We’re connected through our intuition, which delivers us information, perspective, and vision beyond our five senses. Many of these people, from Socrates to George Fox, were threatened with death, or actually put to death, by authorities who did not want their power threatened.
When we practise ‘living in the present’, we have access to this greater wisdom. It happens when we allow our intuition to bring us unplanned thoughts, whose origin is not our body’s central processing unit. When we ‘live in the present’, practising listening and observing in silence, we receive positive and negative intuitions. And when we learn to experience our intuitions without reaction or judgment, we have the power of choice as to whether we are going to follow positive or negative intuitions.
When we choose to follow our positive intuitions, we are in fact choosing creation rather than destruction, light rather than darkness, love rather than hate, life rather than death.
I have two examples of this from my recent personal experience. First, when someone angrily denounced a peace-seeking friend of mine, I did three things: I clearly and emphatically responded that such an outburst was totally unacceptable; I sought counsel from people with a long history of conflict resolution; and I also sought counsel from someone who had worked with the person. I then wrote a simple letter, apologising for any bad behaviour on my part and forgiving him for his. I wished him well, stating that he was a good person. But I then left the group he was in, and transferred my membership to another group. It was a practice I suggest in my Woodbrooke Life Reflections workshop: ‘Go where invited and not where you are not welcome.’
Secondly, I have a friend who I learned will vote for Donald Trump, despite Trump’s felony conviction in a criminal justice court. Following the Hippocratic medical principle of ‘Do no harm’, and the spiritual principle of ‘Don’t interfere in another person’s spiritual progress’, I talk about only those things we both enjoy and appreciate in life, things that will add to our friendship, not things that would end it.
What do you want to choose today, and what do you practise to be able to choose what you want?
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there is a huge increase in human consciousness taking place especially re connectedness; Currently I am following an international zoom conference by Humanity Team and others on the Scientific and Medical Network
Richard Thompson
Valence
France
By Sylvette T on 2024 10 25
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