STAY CONNECTED

The late GREAT Nelson Mandela's legacy is now ours to do with what we will. Whilst enabling self-determination for so many Mandela demonstrated that whilst one man can do so much, many men and women can together do even more. We have such collective power to influence the lives of each other. We have such positive potentials. Great humans are rare, and yet they are everywhere in Potentia. I meet them every day. Our personal challenge is to act like a great person by being one...in our own small ways and with all our imperfections. I like many of Mandela’s quotes but one that stays with me regarding his humility is “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner that keeps on trying”. It really is our Imperfections that fuel our brilliance. We don’t need to set out to be great to become great humans, we just need to be guided by our evolutionary integrity (EVI) - what we are intrinsically designed to be. The rest will take care of itself if only we cooperate.

STAY CONNECTED

Learning to ride highs while staying connected to lows grows emotional capacity even though the process of life requires that we struggle and even suffer. AS WE GROW AWARENESS and our other superpowers of Imagination, Intuition, Reason and Will, we end up expanding our capacities and become better able to cooperate with our growth...even with the seemingly necessary struggle. Awakened, we also cease to suffer nearly so much for we have expanded perspective...still connected to the daily stuff of life. Our imperfections are known and owned such that they become part of the platform we stand on in life, part of the authentic 'us' that seeks to express itself in the world.

I am committed to contributing to the raising of human consciousness towards more and more of our positive potentials. I see so much we could do and be and have and I believe a conscious path is the way to more wisdom and better decision-making. We can all live in ‘the now’ and be present to what life offers but we must remember that every ‘now’ takes us moment by moment, choice by choice, towards somewhere… Perhaps it is time to look far out to the horizon of time and acknowledge the direction our decisions are leading us. It is an old spiritual truth that “If you don’t change direction – you will end up where you are headed”. If you don’t like where you are headed – change direction!

In my own small way, I will do whatever I can to foster the healthy human relationships that lead to healthy communities and a more coherent human species. This is my life’s work and commitment to you and all my fellow humans. Whoever you are and believe yourself to be, I wish you more of what nourishes you deeply. Maybe 2014 can be the year of great awakenings.

I hope to see you in person sometime next year. The Soapbox will return in February.

Signing off for 2013 with loads of love to you and yours for a safe and FUN FILLED summer,

Amanda