Empathy

Today I wander through musing my way through my connections by phone, with their strings of intelligence, whether they are from this life, this experience, or other lives and other experiences, strings with tiny wee electronic velcro connections, I muse.   We are so woven together in this fabric of happenings and reactions.  People I talked to today are warriors, truly bonded in love and kindness, charged up to seek higher Guidance, for routes out of complex empathetic attachments and patterns they probably inherited or have from old experiences so they can deepen into their true natures, and use their gifts for our world.   A kind of politics. 

One delightful and courageous young woman I spoke with today was realigning herself to the fullness of life in the US, after a 3 month stint in extreme poverty in an African country. She revealed a wisdom and depth beyond her years discussing how our lives can be tricked by empathy with the ambiance  situations.  How deeply impoverished and impossible she felt whilst living in the small community, yet she comes from a financially solid life here in the US.   There no one had much of anything, especially aspiration and hope.   Relentlessly expecting nothing but just living through each day.  Rarely do the people in the village live long.  At times she identified deeply and felt frozen with the trap in which they find themselves.   She returned.

I was heartened as my young friend’s inner light kept rising and rising, til possibilities for those people soared through her.   I could “see” that the education she had received through the mind numbing experience, had touched her soul’s gifts and somehow, her experiences inside and out, as if rich with the yeast of intention, would urge her to rise, even enthusiastic, to tackle huge environmental issues, in our own country and for the world. 

Empathy is so amazing and can, like in her case, activate one another to lift, to reach, to aspire.