The Magic Notes
Few can hear the magic notes and have danced with joy together.
Many have been drowned by the noise of fame and their desire for material gain.
The universe cries for what could be, the choices that went wrong.
It cries for those who pass this way and didn’t awake to sing their song.
Moments of truth
The document provides insights to help us improve the well-being of our society and our planet. The fundamental message in the document is that our evolutionary purpose is to build a world characterized by love. To achieve this, we have to understand and learn how to increase our love of ourselves and each other. This learning is achieved in moments of truth.
Life is a gift in which we have many opportunities to experience happiness on our journey. A moment of truth occurs when we are experiencing disharmony and discomfort individually in what we are doing, or when we are seeking to achieve a purpose with another, and we experience disharmony with others which results in anger and stress. We recognize that something is wrong. Unfortunately, there is a natural tendency to make things worse through a negative response based in anger. An extreme example would be a married couple that has a disagreement which leads to one of the partner saying they can’t take it anymore and they’re going to leave. I consider this to be a moment of truth: a moment when the partner might respond by saying “okay, leave, I don’t care!” This can result in the situation getting worse and being more difficult to resolve. Alternatively, a response made from the heart could be “I really don’t want you to leave. I know you are feeling really upset: what can I do to help you feel better?”
We learn to love in a moment to truth by seeking to resolve the disharmony in a caring and loving manner, by seeking a harmonious path forward. I encourage you to think about moments in your life when you were upset and became angry, and later, on reflection, you recognized being angry hindered your ability to achieve your purpose.
Here is an example that might help you understand options involved in a moment of truth. Your 15-year-old child went out one evening and agreed to be home by 9 PM but did not return until 11 PM. This is a moment of disharmony, a moment of truth. When your child returns, are you critical and angry? Or do you feel care in this moment of truth and respond from the heart by saying, “Are you okay? Did something go wrong? I was worried about you?” and then listen to their response.
Learning to love is the outcome of choosing to act with love in a moment of disharmony with others and experiencing the positive results of choosing to do so. A moment of truth can also be experienced when an individual is trying to achieve a purpose of their own. The following is a personal example.
You are texting an important message on your phone and accidentally hit the send button before you have completed or reviewed the message. How do you react? One way is to be upset and hit the table or swear to let out your frustration, but this gets in the way of achieving your purpose. Another possible reaction is to peacefully accept the situation (not easy) and then inform the receiver of the mistake and send them the correct message.
The opportunity to learn to love comes at a moment of truth: not when everything is going well, but rather when there is a breakdown and an opportunity to care about resolving the situation and seeking to make things better by responding from the heart. When we respond to disharmony from the heart, with love, we are making a contribution to our evolutionary purpose of becoming one.
Mohammed said “Spread love everywhere you go”
Buddha said “Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish”
Jesus said “Love thy neighbors as thyself”
It’s in your hands only love can find a way
Albert Einstein's letter to his daughter
Learning to Hear Our Inner Wisdom