(Written in October 2004)
Dear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I’m feeling a little lonely and sad. Please remind me of what is really important.
Dear Jenny, relax. Let yourself sink down into the couch, into the Ocean of Compassion. What’s really important is to live from a place of love, of kindness and gentleness. Remember the beings that you love: Bella, Lynelle, Beverly, Kayla, Julia, Barbara, Greg, Gene, etc. And all that is worthy of love in your life: this house, Neskaya, the dances and music, the mountains and trees and streams, the spirits, all the people who are working for peace and sustainability. Remember the vision of a world where everyone has enough to eat, has clothing and shelter and the means to keep warm in the winter, where everyone belongs to a loving community, and has the opportunity to use their gifts for the good of that community. Where ‘war has been renounced and its instruments disassembled’, and the money that used to be spent on weapons is used for schools and hospitals, or just given back to communities and individuals to improve the quality of their daily lives. This is the direction that the whole world is moving, though there is much resistance from people who have been traumatized and oppressed and filled with fear. Remember that the team that is fighting to save planet earth includes more than the people who are working for peace, justice and environmental sanity. The team includes the animals, trees and rocks, the fish in the sea — even the algae are fighting to save planet earth — and all the spirits, saints, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. How can we fail to save the earth? All shall be well and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.