WE CAN LEARN THROUGH WISDOM OR WE CAN LEARN THROUGH PAIN

But we will learn

The impulse to create a better world is stymied when the vessels through which such an impulse should emerge are corrupted. From political parties to organized religion to social and political movements, institutions that should carry the torch are too often the ones most scared of the fire.

The “rebirth of freedom” on its way to us now will be like a tsunami that washes away entire landscapes of established realities. Large and small signs of an old order will pass away. Root poisons such as bigotry, smirks, blockages, prejudices, lack of ethics, domination, dishonor, arrogance, greed, smugness, control, dishonesty…some very high places created by those things will topple as the world re-forms. Nature has a way of recalibrating itself when humanity is moving too far in a loveless direction. Destruction is sometimes necessary in order for new creation to take place.

Humanity is now in the midst of a giant learning curve, which we can either embrace or resist. But the learning is coming. It’s not always up to us what we learn in life; it’s only up to us whether we learn through joy or through pain. We can learn through wisdom and sober happiness and a willingness to change, or we can learn through suffering. But things will not be allowed to remain as they are; we have manufactured a reality too at odds with the natural order of things for the natural order of things to tolerate.

So often over the last year people would say to me, “The country is just not ready for you yet.” And I would think to myself, “What a pity.”