Life is made up of everything, including all those things you have been programmed to think of as "good" and "evil."  Actually, the perception of "good" cannot exist without the perception of "bad."  It is the interpretation of things that causes problems.  If you become OK with what Life is, moment by moment, being aware of the conditional interpretation that you might hold as one way of seeing what is happening, an acceleration can begin to take place.  As you evolve, you start to recognize the various avenues simultaneously, so that there is no "right" or "wrong," there is only "this is happening."  You can so position yourself with what is happening that you are comfortable or uncomfortable with it, and again there is no right or wrong to either position; it is simply what-is. 
 
You systematically move towards removing resistances or attachments to how things are supposed to be.  When there is no resistance or attachment, you are with how things are.  This is not to say that you like or dislike how things are.  Rather, you recognize that the dynamic of Life is all-inclusive.  It takes all of these things to be Life.  Out of every "good" there comes some "evil," and out of every "evil" there comes some "good."  You recognize that the highest good is taking place, but that the highest good has nothing to do with the consensus idea of "good."  Instead, it is the highest Is-ness, the highest connectivity, the highest realization, the highest clarity.  It is not good or bad, it is simply seeing and experiencing a bigger picture.  The more you experience a bigger picture, the more OK you become with things, because there is no agenda, there is no "supposed to." 
 
Now, putting this into practice is difficult, because you always have personal concepts sneaking back in with their agenda:  "This is the way it is supposed to be!"  If you can stop yourself and see, "Wait a minute, there is no way it is supposed to be; this thought is just the way I want it," you can realize that the way you want it may be in conflict with the way someone else wants it.  For the sake of harmony, acceleration and transformation, you will want to find a place of compromise, because having your way is a very separative mechanism.  So you strive towards seeing the most workable, the most harmonious, the most at-ease positioning, and that may not always be in alignment with your training, with what you think is "right." 
 
Getting to being OK with what-is, is a Life process.  You start by making the smaller things in your life OK.  You don't want to tackle the big things at first, because that is too hard.  As you keep making smaller things OK in your life, it becomes easier.  It is OK to disagree; it is OK to see things differently.  It is OK to have an opinion or an ideal that runs counter to other people's opinions and ideals, but ultimately you are trying to find a place of compromise, of balance and harmony, of moderation.  Moderation means, "I don't want to have it my way, I don't want to have it your way, there is another way it can be that is a compromise, that is harmonious, a better flow, a higher frequency, a more expansive awareness and connection."
 
It is a matter of realizing that nothing in your life is worth creating a disconnection.  Nothing is worth that--no opinion, no past, no want, no desire, no attachment, no expectation; there is nothing in one's life that is worth a disconnection.  That is the realization that you are moving toward: you don't want anything in your life that will create a disconnection, because Life is connection.  Disconnection is death. 
 
So you start looking for ways in which you can create a greater connection, ways in which you can make things more harmonious, more accommodating, more allowing, more possible, while at the same time maintaining some sense of integrity, some sense of order.  Of course, what is "order" to one person may be chaos to another, so again it can be a matter of interpretation.  It is always a path of compromising, always looking for places where things can meet, where there can be a connection.
 
If you are in an argument with someone, try to put yourself in that person's place and understand where that person is coming from.  It is funny when I look at this, because I always see that people are "right" in terms of where they are coming from, but their "right" happens to be in conflict with the "right" of another person who is coming from some place else, so there is a clash.  The solution is to go to a higher frequency where one can be all inclusive and see both positions as "right."  People arrive at various conditional ways of being because of their past, their training, and possibly there is a lot of self-protection involved, but when you go to a higher frequency you begin to see all the ingredients that are involved in what is happening.  You see where people are coming from, you understand what is going on, and you don't make people "wrong" or "right."  You simply understand where they are coming from.  They are "right" in terms of where they are coming from, and you are "right" too, but if you can bring yourself to a higher level of awareness, a realization of greater connectivity, you realize that it doesn't matter where people are coming from.  What matters is that people do not hold onto where they are coming from, that they are willing to see there is a way to connect, that there is a connection within the diversities of being, that even in the differences there are still places where things can connect.  So you move back into being OK. 
 
When your heart's desire is to live in balanced harmony and peace, you find yourself very willing to make compromises, very willing to see a higher good, a greater connectivity, a way of being that is not disruptive.  When it becomes your heart's desire to be a connecting link in all experiences, then it becomes easier to be OK.  It is a progressive process of being OK with the smaller things, and realizing that there are going to be accidents, there are going to be disruptions, flare-ups, bouts of anger; there are going to be moments of separation.  These are instances of the presence of "evil," which is always there along with the presence of "good." 
 
There is an illusionary spiritual ideal that one can achieve a level of awareness  where one no longer experiences the "evil", where one no longer has negative thoughts, but that is not Life.  Life is negative and positive together all the time.  Life is connection.  Life is about focusing not on the negative or the positive, but on the connection, and then the negative and positive come together and they don't matter.  It no longer matters whether it is "good" or "evil", and you move into being OK.
 
Most people want to escape the negative; they will commence a spiritual journey to escape their interpretation of "evil," because the evil is painful; it hurts.  Spirituality thus becomes a means of escape.  The only way, however, to get through this Life, the only way to evolve, is to embrace everything about Life, which means not making anything bad or good.  It all IS, and it is OK.  Getting to OKness with everything is a life's work, because you likely have been programmed to believe that many things are not OK.  These programs will cause you to stumble, to fall back into the experience of "It's not OK."  Even then you can realize that "It is OK that it is not OK," and then even that experience becomes one of moving towards OK. top of page

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