Harmony & Hell

 To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy … is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Ralph Waldo Trine

There was a time in my life when depression first reared its head in my life. Quotes, such as this one from Ralph Waldo Trine, helped me so much. Affirmations and encouraging words can help us to rise the light of contentment and peace in our hearts and minds. Kind words and friendliness, and caring for one another can also do this.

What kind of world do we want to live in? What world do we want for our children and grandchildren. Do we have them to have to experience war, intolerance, and hatred? A world with no joy? With birds singing and dolphins playing? 

I know, most likely, this is all a dream. And I know to hold it lightly. But this is something in my head and heart I cannot deny. For we need to hold all sides, the thoughts of peace and prosperity, love, and joy…and of violence and hatred, greed and despair…and, the one not thought of so much of, boredom and disinterest. Why? Because they exist.

To be free we must hold it all, to know it as it is, but at the same time, know there is another way. Things are always changing. This is the immutable law.

We are in heaven, but we also live in a hell of our own making. Oh say it isn’t so. That would be ignorance and I want to be awake.