As environmental destruction seems to loom ever closer, we know we have to try to rebuild paradise, but what exactly is it that we want to recreate?
Each of us may have a different vision. To some, it might be sailing on a yacht in the sun, eating peeled grapes and drinking champagne. To others it might be walking through gorgeous countryside with a playful dog. It could be a beautiful garden in full bloom, or a night out under a starlit sky with a beloved. The list is endless.
Paradise – Image by Walkerssk – Pixabay
Perhaps it is easier to say what paradise is not. Paradise is not war and it is not famine. It is not pain and it is not suffering. It is not poverty and starvation. It is not despair and depression. These are hell and, although it is hard for us to accept, they are largely of our own making.
All visions of paradise have what we call qualities in common. Examples of qualities are peace and love, compassion and forgiveness, freedom and acceptance, understanding and wisdom. When we turn live backwards into evil, we create the opposite: war and hatred, judgement and arrogance; slavery and intolerance; ignorance and fear.
Just look at the media. In an attempt to show us so-called reality, we are bombarded with stories based on fear. Because the only reality is what we perceive, and because we all perceive something different, this means that we are fed fearful illusion.
When we believe that negative illusion, we become victims to it. Victimhood makes us moan constantly about what is wrong, about how ill we feel, and about the state of this rotten world. It causes us to concentrate on what’s wrong rather than what’s right. We don’t feel good enough so we try to have power over others. We don’t feel ease in our bodies so we develop dis-ease. We overwhelm ourselves with so much doing that we forget how to be and become anxious insomniacs. We seek evermore information which we cannot absorb and so we develop dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In other words, we create hell. We turn the word ‘live’ backwards into ‘evil’.
Language has an enormous power of creation. However we say something, it will be proved right. If we want to regain paradise lost, then we need to be mindful of what we are saying. We can choose to contemplate rather than vent, think deeply about consequences rather than being heartless, speak beauty rather than fear. We can choose to listen compassionately what others are trying to create. We can choose to pray so that we can reconnect to our magnificent spirit, hear to the messages of our glorious heart and once again merge with the unity of the divine.
If this is a way of re-speaking paradise, then so be it.
Image by Walkerssk – Pixabay
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