Remember sweet child, Life expands in all directions.
It is not only our highs that grow, but our lows as well. Indeed the lows are what urge us to explore greater and greater highs. Our highs would not exist outside of our need for them to balance our lows, so each low brings with it the opportunity to seek the high that balances it. Indeed our evolution, then, is experienced not through how far we venture from our center, but how able we are to return.
An observation about human culture and Life as addressed to all humans:
You have created a world in which true ownership is rarely experienced. Everything you have is essentially rented from a group you call your "government". This group, which you have helped create, has invented rules and declared that you may keep what you have borrowed as long as you follow those rules. If not, they will reclaim possession.
This group has been GIVEN THIS AUTHORITY by the lot of you. Indeed, you say of your governments that they speak for the people, and so you have granted them authority, ownership, of everything that is "yours" including your children and your actions. This is observably true by noticing that those who do not follow the rules will have these things taken from them. Those who have to have their actions taken from them are locked in metal cages you call "Jail." Those who have not behaved "correctly" with regard to their children may also wind up in Jail, but they will certainly be forcefully parted from their children, and the loaning company (government, that YOU have helped create) will repossess, manage, and re-distribute them to another home.
In reality, of course, true ownership, the kind that is not on loan and can be taken by no one, is all that exists. Everything you experience belongs to you, belongs to everyone. There is not a thing among you that does not belong to all of you. So why do you pretend that one group owns it and that another does not, and further, why do YOU GRANT THIS GROUP AUTHORITY to use VIOLENT MEANS if necessary to retrieve what is theirs?
John Lennon has asked you to "Imagine all the people...sharing all the world."
It has been imagined long enough.
Now I ask you: Will you join ME in sharing all the world?
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