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To all the Dragons, to our friends, students, and family:
We send Love.
The new political leadership of the United States is in power and now everyone feels the challenge of moving ahead with the results.
I see too much fear, too much conflict. What is needed is Love.
Love is to be more. At this moment in history, everyone is challenged to be more. It doesn’t feel like Love.
It feels like fear, anger, disrespect, and so much conflict. The challenge is to turn these feelings into energy for growth.
It’s easy to lose steam, hide or doing nothing. Understand it’s necessary to use and process these feelings into actions that promote a better life with growth.
Anger is not a negative feeling, nor is it a positive feeling. Anger is an evolved tool humans use to break out of problems. Use it well to solve problems and challenges. If you use it poorly, you get unnecessary conflict that hurts you.
I love the quote
“Angry gets Shit Done”
But also, the shadow side of anger is domestic violence, damage to the natural world, war and invasions of personal and communal boundaries.
The energy of anger teaches us to defend, what to defend and how to defend without violating the boundaries of others.
Here is another truth:
Know your fight.
If you avoid “your fight” others will abuse you and take away your power. In the United States, people are taught to make everything their fight, leading to lots of damage. We teach people how to know when to focus on their fight and when to release false fights. What happens when the times do become everyone’s fight? We are about to find out.
So what is the answer?
Be fierce.
Yet also embrace Love.
So the answer is:
Embrace Fierce Love
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What is Fierce Love?
Love is to become more. The trap of Love is that many people are passive with Love.
Fierce Love is Love with determination and action.
What we need is Love coupled with action!
Fierce Love is proactive Love.
We often become passive in our Love and only love a few people deeply. We need to reach out and love others around us to be stronger.
Fierce Love is an expanded love with awareness to take away racism, greed, and other destructive behaviors that can limit us. Thirty years ago, I decided that I needed to be proactively kind and help others live to their essence. While I live with proactive kindness, most people aren’t aggressive in their kindness.
Passive kindness will not save the world.
A teacher asked me: “Why did love fail in the late 60’s”. I now know it failed simply because people were passive in Love and didn’t account for organized fierce greed. Well, now it’s time to organize fierce Love.
All too many people will try to sit the times out. To sit the times out will be to lose to organized fierce greed.
Love is to be more, don’t wait for “the more” to come to you, be proactive, organize, be part of communities and grow. Help each other become more with a fierceness of heart and protect each other and our growth.
Be kind with determination. Reach out proactively to improve the world.
Be strong in how your reach out to make a better world.
I wrote this 15 years ago! Here is the full article. No one understood what I was talking about then, but now it is time for us to all embrace this lesson or lose our chance “to be more”. All too many people are choosing “less” and being a sock puppet of the billionaires.
What will fierce love look like for you? I cannot say since it will based on how you use your anger, which fights you choose, what actions you decide are worth backing with fierceness.
Fierce love will be a personal path of discovery for each person. Since it is actually a path, that also means it is your Tao calling to you.
My fierce love is
- Compassion and patience to guide another person during hard moments of change.
- Standing up to fight and protect those I love.
- Jumping into a wild river to save a person’s life.
- Is many things that are hard to describe to another person but is what I call Kindness.
The only way to discover your fierce love is to jump into life and stand for the values that truly matter to you. Hopefully, your fierce love won’t only be for comfort because there is only decay in comfort.
If you feel overwhelmed by the politics, don’t worry; we are all tumbled together in this moment of history. In being together, we help each other get back up and then walk together to face what unfolds.
Instead of living in fear, Julie and I choose to live in Fierce Love. We want to help others always be more and live a stronger life. We are building the Dragon community up so that we are all not alone.
We are not alone, we are together and helping each other be more every day.
If you are still left asking “What is next?”.
My response to you is the same as mine decades ago.
- Acknowledge the problems and then work to improve yourself and your community.
- Engage your energy to reinforce your communities with Fierce Love.
While our actions over 20 years ago may not have deflected the conflict in today’s world. We have still made a difference by bringing a hundred people together and giving 10,000 people better lives.
Our steps 20 years ago to live a kind, pro-active life has made a difference in many of your lives.
Now take that Love, that energy, share it, and help others.
It has always been one step at a time , one day at time. Add Fierce Love to each step and your routines to reinforce being a dragon and together we improve the world in our steps.
We’ve started a new chat group for all of us to share our fears, anger, fierce love actions and experience growth together! Please share a medicinal thought or a looping thought, a sorrow or a joy on our *NEW Spirituality and Shadow chat group.
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Cheers
Much Love Dragons.
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