If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee. If you want the unseen world, wou're not living your truth. Both sides are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is Love's confusing joy.

-Rumi

What is it to be alert?

True alertness is the state of selflessness in which one is instantly and directly able to respond. This is the way things are reflected in a mirror, just exactly as they are. If one has something in one's mind, the outside world will not be reflected perfectly, nor will it be possible to respond at once. The practice od meditation is a way of realizing this truth: that the real acceptance of and response to the world has nothing to do with one's own judgement.

What if we ALL, each and every one of us-refused to hang out in poor-poor-me, poor-poor-powerless-me anymore?

What if we simply went about seeing, feeling, and doing-LIVING-our passionate dreams?Imagine what our world would transform into really, really quickly-I bet we could create it within only two generations, maybe less.

I'm not kidding when I say it's up to you and me. I really really mean it. Quit thinking of the world as having "gone wrong," because what's happening now is *right* if you look at it in terms of : This is what is happening in order for us to make powerful, liberated new choices.

Quit thinking of how you're going to lose this, that or the other. So what if you do? Any material possession is replaceable.

Here's the correct question: "What will I do next?

"Our time on earth is not replacable. Nor is our heart, our life, or our voice-especially if we keep silent and don't share our joy, love and dreams.

RECLAIM YOUR POWER!

This is my life and I get to decide what to feel, think and act upon. No one else decides that for me.So I decide this: despite the panic that seems to have set in (so deeply people are stockpiling food in Europe!), I'm strengthening and deliberately focusing on the step-by-step actions I take all day every day to keep my dream world alive and happening. Because it's up to us--each one of us--to create our own individual great worlds so that, as we merge in public, at schools, work and meetings, our worlds can overlap and get bigger. It's up to us to keep focused on what we want, not on what we don't want, are afraid of or think is bad. Remember? What you focus on grows?