CAN WE RESPONSIBLY AVOID POLITICS?..JUNE 13, 2021

There are individuals in high leadership positions in our government who have healthy respectful views of the many natural differences among us human citizens. 

And there are also many in high positions who see 'other than their circle or kind' as negatively different. These high-end persons are NOT devoted personally to protecting by law the equal rights of all of us. This includes not standing up for persons of all colors, ethnicities, religions, sexual/gender identifications and any 'other' minority demographic. 

If we don't think it matters what kind of persons we vote for in this regard then aren't we essentially saying to all minorities, ' To hell with you. You just don't really matter as much as I and my kind do." ? Isn't that the opposite of what America, and for that matter the Christ story, professes to be about?

Don't we deceive ourself to claim to love, value and respect all citizens and still decline to make focused, deliberate, thoughtful political choices for the 'healthy' kind of candidates wherever they come from or what party they may be? 

And don't we deceive ourself to not realize times in our history, like now, when generally a whole party, with its one-man leadership, openly doesn't seek 'healthy' open-minded candidates? Ones interested in the rights and protections of all U.S. citizens? 

Can we vote for such persons and still claim to care about securing equality for all, a national 'democratic' atmosphere. I'm not personally seeing how.

FINDING ONE'S MORE COMPLETE SELF..June 1, 2021

 It is seeming to me that for most to find and follow ones true self one must make mental contact with and be influenced by some, at least one, of the greatest human genius creative minds.

 Instead we tend to listen and follow some watered down worn out values and principles and cliches of our collective cultures , groups and institutions. Or easily fall into some form of the obsessive materialism of our times.

I know little of Tolstoy except that he is one of those gifted genius minds, one of those who is actually a spiritual gift to all of humanity. Jim Rigsby happened onto him it appears. 

These creative genius minds turn out, often in spite of themselves, to also be the greatest lovers, lovers of all humankind. So they all are teaching the same thing, that the greatest of all things is indeed love. If we can only discover what that means to us and spend a significant part of life doing do it. Then we might more fully, and perhaps more consciously, become what we are intended to be.