In Touch with our values

The time has come to return to the ONE place where it all began. Complete the circle and start again. It is within us.

No matter how much we talk about individuality today – we don’t have it anymore. What we see and hear is a distorted drawing – like a charicature of individuality. The true individuality has been lost in our systems and left us behind with selfishness and separation as a poor substitute.

Selfishness is an action of the mind. Individuality is an action of the heart.

Selfishness is at the expense of others and is characterized by an underlying lack of respect for others – like a spoiled child. Going deeper will find that the lack of respect is directed even stronger towards themselves. Nobody likes to feel inferior and many would rather hide it than give it recognition. The most common ways to disguise this inferior feeling is greed. Greed for money, greed for power, greed for control over others. Out of this negative spiral grows the person we today often call the individualist – a jealous, aggressive and judgmental spoiled child – lost in a world of man made systems.

The systems we have created to make things easier for all of us have to a large degree outplayed themselves. They are all born from the human mind and hence the energy of the mind is their core of existence. In the long run any man made “system” will start behaving as the human mind – that is all it knows. And that is why our so called systems in general have facilitated our development away from the heart and into the world of the mind.

The world of the heart or spirit – is where we find the true individuality. It is based on respect for all beings, - other people, animals, plants, stones, birds, clouds, planets etc – and for oneself.  ONESELF is where it all begins, now, before and later. And it is where we find our true values, those that really matter to us.

If we want to change this world for the better there is only this one place to go, to our own hearts. We can never help anybody if we are unwilling to help ourselves, unwilling to respect and honour ourselves. Stop the comparison to others and look inside to get to know the person. What is important? Is there anything more important than to find out what IS important? When we get to know our values, what we stand for – then there is no longer need for suppressing other people by controlling behaviour. We can act with dignity and allow others the same space.

We all know that the iceberg only has 10 percent visible above the water. If the iceberg was only what we see it wouldn’t be the force we know. It would tumble around, making a few noises, scratching a few boats – but no real power. We are the same. We are gifted a huge source to tap into and the entrance is the very centre of ourselves.