If I am truly dedicated to change, I don’t make a goal of “changing the world” or “making the world a better place” or any kind of goal where the ultimate goal is change.
Change as a goal involves resistance to ‘what is.’
Which is not only unnecessary, it is counterproductive.
Because ‘what is’ is always flowing. There is no need to make it change. It never stops changing without my interference.
But when I resist it, it appears not to change.
When I resist ‘what is’ it interrupts and stifles my connection with the benevolent flow of the universe and I start to see it as static. I impose my resisting opinion on it and see the object of my resistance everywhere and this sows the seeds of all my suffering.
Everything I trap in this way will stay in my life until I can love it. This is the kindness of the universe at work.
When I drop my resistance to ‘what is,’ and turn my attention toward loving ‘what is’ (not liking it or preferring it or seeking to sustain it, but recognizing my oneness with it and engaging it with that recognition in my heart), I return to the awareness of my total communion with everything around me, and it all starts to flow again, everything changing as it should.
Meaning as it does.
Meaning as it always has and always will.
I cannot make change (pride), I can only allow it (humility).
The universe is never the same. It never stands still. It is always flowing. Because in an ever-changing system, the “right” thing is always something different. What should it be? It should be what it IS.
Now.
And now.
And now.
I just lock it in place in my mind when I think myself separate and resist what is. I bring a difficult past forward and project a permanent future where it will always be as it was then, and I do all of this now. It’s a distraction. Because, all the while, the present is changing underneath and I’m missing it. This is perfectly innocent and perfectly human and totally unnecessary when I understand what’s going on.
And when I do (which is not always), I can love ‘what is’ - now - and watch everything constantly changing - through my actions or not - completely on my behalf, to exactly what it’s supposed to be.