We have all had times that it seemed that the deck was stacked against us, nothing we could do was right or that things crumbled around us or blew up into a crisis whether we did our best or not; through no fault of our own, things happen. Big things, little things, even things like chicken pox get in our way. Instead of moving along down the path that we feel we deserve to be on, we get sick, or someone around us gets sick, or the car needs repair or endless other distractions from where we would rather be. Getting through those times requires perseverance. Knowing in deepest parts of our being, our hearts, souls, minds, what needs to be done feeling progress toward our dreams and making headway toward achieving our goals requires this essential virtue, sometimes above all others.
Getting really down and into the making it through part, requires an essential component of courage. When one feels that death would be an acceptable alternative to stop the pain of living, but instead opt to stay alive, this may be the ultimate perseverance, far beyond that required for someone to cross a desert without water, or someone scaling a mountain without any extra gear or supplies, for these challenges only deal with external obstacles, the inner ones are a result of deprivation and require us to face the ultimate questions like why are we here or who we are really, beyond the former limits we had set for ourselves. these internal struggles often come about because of physical challenges, but they are not exclusively the product of such struggles. The person battling their own wish for their personal demise begins their struggle from within the internal workings of their own mind. The deprivations are often of social contact, or meaningful relationships, feeling accepted, or experiencing intimacy with another soul. Getting through these mental and emotional challenges are just as dramatic and compelling as the well publicized extreme sports stories. We are living through a time when we are coming to terms with our many stigmas and rightly so, because human beings are being put under more and more stress and feeling less and less support. Putting into practice the nine virtues can resolve many of the issues we face, but we have to be willing to look at each in turn, deeply, meaningfully and try to figure our why we were given the traumatic or stressful events we have had to bear. It exercises a part of us that needs to be strong and resilient, not crack under the inevitable pressures and stressors that accompany living in a modern world. Many of the greatest examples of my own successes bear the sign of these virtues, making them part of each and every aspect of our lives enriches us, offers us the choice of grace in each of our undertakings and provides rich food for thought that leads to a richness of experience that is difficult to put into words.
Every generation has to endure; continue in spite of everything the world throws at them. Ideally, with grace, but to persevere is even more than just putting up with the pain, the feelings of neglect or abuse we have had to face during our lives. Waiting through, or wading through the bullshit is often how we do it, annealing our soul for greater challenges that await. Sometimes our coping mechanisms are the stories we tell, the truths we comprehend, the culture that surrounds and nurtures us, it can often be the self love that we bring to the table. No matter what melts down or blows up into a fiasco around us, we will make it through, nearly every challenge gets met, that is why Homo sapiens have been successful. The circle remains unbroken, back through the ages and if we play our part, the cycle will continue for generations to come. Meeting our challenges often requires just one thing, being sure that we are on the right track and keeping moving forward in spite of any obstacles.
Our efforts, even when they are seemingly made to no avail are sometimes just charging a sort of energetic battery which will bring abundance your way in seemingly magic ways. I don't attribute it to magic, I thing something energetic is going on that resonates, when we set our sights on a challenge and meet it. I believe that there are physical relationships between energy and the world we are able to create that science has yet to define of measure. This is the opposite of magic, just misunderstood reality. Working actually takes on a different quality when we give selflessly and transcend our own reality for a greater dream or creation to arise. Womyn have a leg up on this one, because they have taken the ultimate course of challenge, requiring a lifetime of perseverance. John Lennon perhaps said it best, "Woman is the Nigger of the World". As we see time and time again, men can just be sperm donors and walk away. They can be abusive and get away with it. Men, who shirk responsibility, who put as little effort into their families as possible are crippling our next generation, whose own ability to persevere will not be informed by those men whose sperm led to their mothers giving them birth. Leaving it up to mothers to tell the stories of making it, against all odds and with virtually no support.
We are slowly coming through a time when even the path forward was obscured by institutionalized sexism. It is still holding on, but has been exposed for what it truly is. The same is taking place with regard to racism. Bit by bit, we have come to learn that the way things are is based on lies, deceitful ones that stripped humanity from over half the population. The oppressed almost always persevere. Those who are power and control freaks just bully their way through life taking what they feel they deserve to the detriment of all others. Time and nature moves all things toward appropriate distribution, abundance and secure, stable ecosystems. "Humanity", as we call it in the Western World, has not yet reached the climax condition of cultures much, much older. That is why so many around the planet are calling for us to accept the humble participation in nature that first nations people have utilized for centuries to keep the peace with nature. Restoring civilization to a place of abundance can be achieved in short order if we just accept scientific facts and act appropriately. We will win the debate about whether we want to become more fully human or to abandon ourselves to Servoglobe, just having our basic needs met without thought, but that transformation will not be complete, not with hopes or dreams, goals or aspirations. All of these things, to be realized need us to persevere, to work through, wait, educate others and push, wade through the crap that is being dispensed as reality by the uberwealthy through the media. Whatever the odds are for those things that bring the greatest happiness to the most people, we will have no chance to make them happen without the internal ingredient that inspires our actions. Perseverance.
Getting really down and into the making it through part, requires an essential component of courage. When one feels that death would be an acceptable alternative to stop the pain of living, but instead opt to stay alive, this may be the ultimate perseverance, far beyond that required for someone to cross a desert without water, or someone scaling a mountain without any extra gear or supplies, for these challenges only deal with external obstacles, the inner ones are a result of deprivation and require us to face the ultimate questions like why are we here or who we are really, beyond the former limits we had set for ourselves. these internal struggles often come about because of physical challenges, but they are not exclusively the product of such struggles. The person battling their own wish for their personal demise begins their struggle from within the internal workings of their own mind. The deprivations are often of social contact, or meaningful relationships, feeling accepted, or experiencing intimacy with another soul. Getting through these mental and emotional challenges are just as dramatic and compelling as the well publicized extreme sports stories. We are living through a time when we are coming to terms with our many stigmas and rightly so, because human beings are being put under more and more stress and feeling less and less support. Putting into practice the nine virtues can resolve many of the issues we face, but we have to be willing to look at each in turn, deeply, meaningfully and try to figure our why we were given the traumatic or stressful events we have had to bear. It exercises a part of us that needs to be strong and resilient, not crack under the inevitable pressures and stressors that accompany living in a modern world. Many of the greatest examples of my own successes bear the sign of these virtues, making them part of each and every aspect of our lives enriches us, offers us the choice of grace in each of our undertakings and provides rich food for thought that leads to a richness of experience that is difficult to put into words.
Every generation has to endure; continue in spite of everything the world throws at them. Ideally, with grace, but to persevere is even more than just putting up with the pain, the feelings of neglect or abuse we have had to face during our lives. Waiting through, or wading through the bullshit is often how we do it, annealing our soul for greater challenges that await. Sometimes our coping mechanisms are the stories we tell, the truths we comprehend, the culture that surrounds and nurtures us, it can often be the self love that we bring to the table. No matter what melts down or blows up into a fiasco around us, we will make it through, nearly every challenge gets met, that is why Homo sapiens have been successful. The circle remains unbroken, back through the ages and if we play our part, the cycle will continue for generations to come. Meeting our challenges often requires just one thing, being sure that we are on the right track and keeping moving forward in spite of any obstacles.
We are slowly coming through a time when even the path forward was obscured by institutionalized sexism. It is still holding on, but has been exposed for what it truly is. The same is taking place with regard to racism. Bit by bit, we have come to learn that the way things are is based on lies, deceitful ones that stripped humanity from over half the population. The oppressed almost always persevere. Those who are power and control freaks just bully their way through life taking what they feel they deserve to the detriment of all others. Time and nature moves all things toward appropriate distribution, abundance and secure, stable ecosystems. "Humanity", as we call it in the Western World, has not yet reached the climax condition of cultures much, much older. That is why so many around the planet are calling for us to accept the humble participation in nature that first nations people have utilized for centuries to keep the peace with nature. Restoring civilization to a place of abundance can be achieved in short order if we just accept scientific facts and act appropriately. We will win the debate about whether we want to become more fully human or to abandon ourselves to Servoglobe, just having our basic needs met without thought, but that transformation will not be complete, not with hopes or dreams, goals or aspirations. All of these things, to be realized need us to persevere, to work through, wait, educate others and push, wade through the crap that is being dispensed as reality by the uberwealthy through the media. Whatever the odds are for those things that bring the greatest happiness to the most people, we will have no chance to make them happen without the internal ingredient that inspires our actions. Perseverance.
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