Come down in time, I still hear her say
So clear in my ears like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I’ll meet you halfway (Elton John and Bernie Taupin)
How do we “come down in time”?
How do we come together?
I hear the calling
How is it by coming together, we are better?
“We are better together”
What does that really mean?
Meeting halfway is about first showing up for ourselves
And meeting ourselves halfway, and until we do that
We cannot truly show up for anyone else. And yet we are not alone
And no person is an Island.
We are all connected and by this connection we are transformed
so that the connection of many/the whole becomes greater
than the sum of its parts.
Is it our higher Self meeting us halfway?
I would offer that our higher Self meets us all the way.
When we can be present and listen, we will hear, sense and feel
that unifying force, that intuitive heart voice that speaks to us always.
We must just open our eyes, ears, senses, minds and hearts….
Whispers of songs, prayers, memories, ideas that spring forth
because we are connected and in that connection,
we are truly better together and a better Self to ourselves.
As such, we inspire and create a better now, which becomes a better world,
a better whole.
Which brings us to that idea ”Be the Change You Wish to See in the World”
attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
However, that’s not what he actually said. What Gandhi really said was this:
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the whole world would also change.
As man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him”.
Let’s look at what this really means more closely. It says, “Be the Change You Wish to
See in the World”. It isn’t referring to a mere change in behavior or lifestyle, it’s saying,
Change who you are as a person. It’s saying, change your own nature to change the world.
This is a call into transformation and is “existentially confrontational”, calling for doing your deep, real, internal work. To be willing to change yourself is not something to be regarded lightly.
It is in fact something that most people RUN from doing. It asks us to truly, deeply inquire about ourselves at a fundamental, core level. It first asks oneself to be truly curious, intense seekers.
Because in order to “Be the Change You Want to See in the World”, you must think hard about what changes you do, in fact, want to see in the world”.
And in order to know these things, you must know yourself deeply, truly, purposefully and wholeheartedly. Whole heartedly means bringing what is in your truest heart of hearts into the world, and one can only do that if they have discovered and embodied their heart-wisdom, born of courage to delve into the many heart chambers that hold more than love letters and trite memories.
It means you have embraced your pain, shame, anger, hurt, sadness, as well as joy, peace and love. It is the grand concert of highs, lows and the in betweens. All of what makes us human, all of our grit, our humility, pride, passions, vengeance and the sticky icky parts we’d like to banish into the dungeons of our psyches.
I have found that this exploration into our human selves is like being a detective, an archeologist, a diver and diviner, an alchemist, magician and a priest. We call on the sacred and profane and all of the beauty and ugliness in between and we call it our own.
It is in the scavenger hunt that plumbs the depths and deaths of our humanity that we then emerge bloodied, dirty, and torn up in the process, yet fully alive to feel the Grace, the grief, the utter vulnerability and beauty of ourselves - and then we can choose how we are going to “Be the Change We Wish to See in the World.”
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