The Honor of Truth & Place

​​Humility & Acceptance
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It's not despair that sets my sails
across the miles to find home. 

A day will come to remap our oceans,
for a new direction, for one another. 
To reignite the Sun that burns in our hearts. 

​These new oceans of hope that we seek
to sail in clear vision with each other,
and in living, day by day, in harmony.
Humility

Eternally we ask who we are.
Ignorance creates pride and fantasy.
Eroding true identity away from the false.
Needing to be greater, instead of sacred.

We are at a loss for perspective,
a greater view from higher ground. 
From there, who we think we are is revealed.
Humility is then viewed as a true sense of Place.

We commence to laugh.
No greater, no lesser,
simply part of all that is.
Everything perfect, whole.

Pride seeks to separate,
to create false value.
With peace in our true value,
humility flows into wholeness.
Arrogance is unsustainable. It defines our separation from each other and the world. It brings a false pride that we are somehow greater than another. It is like trying to polish the Sun to gain more brightness. It’s unnecessary. 
The sense of separation creates a vision of greater and lesser, as though one molecule of creation is worth more than the next molecule. As a result we never have a permanent place in the world because we constantly unweight the balance of the world by finding one place of seemingly more value than another. 
In the vastness of the universe we have a place and a part to play. Contentment is knowing what part you play in the orchestra and performing it well. It’s not thinking you are the whole orchestra or the most important part. It is realizing that each must know his place in the music and play his notes clearly and skillfully. All are important when seated in their place. 
Pride creates false value; better or worse, higher or lower, and us or them. Humility is the contentment that you know the best place for you to abide. It’s also knowing that you value and know your part in the flow of the universe. Every atom, star and galaxy is important. None of more value than another. All part of the divine sacredness of existence that flows into the wholeness of our perfection.
Acceptance

Circumstances present the world to us.
We stand, we judge, we control.
Denying the ecology of reality.
Forcing the world to fit our fantasy.

Before your existence,
the world hummed in harmony.
Caring for all in its own way.
Seeking only creation and balance.

Being content with the world,
nothing to improve, including you.
Gratefully receiving what is offered.
Trusting the process of spirit.

Finding circumstances and choices,
consenting to be part of, 
instead of in opposition.
Blessing the way and the choices.
Acceptance is often seen as resignation. That view is a misunderstanding of how reality works, how you respond in the world as you encounter new and changing conditions or circumstances. Is it an approaching rain storm or a colorful sunset? With every circumstance you have a choice, if you want to take it. 
The choice is that of suffering or contentment. The choice is totally yours to make. The results are easy to predict based on one principle. Choices that are in synch with the flow of the universe yield contentment. Resisting that flow creates your personal suffering. 
If we force our fantasy onto the world by trying to control, judge others, or attach ourselves to transitory objects then we bring ourselves great pain. Believing that we can fix forests, climates, oceans, the sun, the universe is the delusion that there is something that needs fixing. This is a projection of our fear that we need fixing. If we are flawed, so must be the world. 
When we see that the natural world does just fine without our “help”, that the universe still revolves without our understanding it, then circumstances are seen as simply turns in the flow of the river. 
Acceptance is seeing the truth of this, understanding your place in that reality and consenting to being a part of it all.