Helpers of the Earth

The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation, (and also our best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that the best "helpers" are the most fully human persons. What I may call the bodhisattvic path is an integration of self-improvement and social zeal, i.e., the best way to become a better "helper" is to become a better person. But one necessary aspect of becoming a better person is via helping other people. So one must and can do simultaneously.
-Abraham Maslow

Your Legacy

"Do what you 'Want' to do, Not what you 'Think' you should do".

Two and a half years ago I visited the Amazon jungle of Peru to spend time with some Shipibo Shaman. I'd locked myself in for a two week commitment to deep learning and healing. The first night I arrived, I dreamt of my Dad. He held gently both my shoulders, looked intently into my eyes and rambled much advice. The only thing I remember was the quote above. It keeps coming to me and the meaning keeps unfolding.

Rather than simply being with our truth creatively and trusting in the moment, we often act from beliefs and patterns of yesterday. We need to learn to spend more time in our hearts than in our heads. The quickest way toward our dreams is to do what we love, be with those that make us happy and be grateful for the good.

When we are stripped bare of all the rights and wrongs, shoulds and shouldn'ts, our fighting ego is left naked and vulnerable. Beyond this there is a place of pure essence. This essence is our awesomeness. Our dreams, loves and joys reside here. We reside here. Our responsibility is to be ourselves. We are the only ones equipped to do the job, no one else can.

It is our legacy to the world to make sure we are living a life we Love.