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In good health-
jess

So it’s been a long time since I’ve posted.  Abandoning a mission is not my style but honestly that last post about the Tibetan Museum was very difficult for me.  I needed to walk away and let my emotions settle, I have revisited that post many times since writing it and found that instead of any settling I only experience an eruption of emotion when I read it.  After several months it still feels the same and so now I truly understand that what I experienced that day and during that trip was in fact life changing.

I am different now. I hear it in my voice, I see it in my actions and I feel it in my heart.  Since returning, I have been trying to strike the balance of living in this country of plenty without closing off my memories of India and of my Tibetan friends whose hearts are a part of mine now.  It’s been a complete and total struggle to witness the disrespect, shallow woes and greed that exists in our everyday life.  It’s been an education of surrendering my ego and channeling the compassion that we all possess deep within.  It’s been recognizing my changes and embracing them.  I am no longer the girl who needs to win the fight or have the last word.  I am in fact a much bigger person now who has experienced a significant change in who she is.  And the craziest thing about this change is that it was the powerfully subtle, I didn’t feel it happening, it crept in slowly and patiently.  I realize now, that its here to stay.

So I need your help.  I need help in softening the abrasion of our society.  We need to help each other and we need to nurture our beautiful earth.  Here’s what I ask, the next time you judge someone for running a red light or not following through with a promise, take a moment to feel where that judgment is coming from.  The next time you go to flip someone off or call them a nasty name behind their back, take a moment to feel where that anger is coming from.  And, the next time you feel the wanting of material, insignificant things or make a choice that is not for the better of the earth, feel where that want is coming from.   Feel the judgment, the anger and the wants in your body; in your soul.   Recognize their superficiality and reevaluate what your goal is.  It your goal to lack compassion or to possess more things?  Or is your goal to be a conscious part of this universe who respects all life?  Make your decision, take a breath and let it go.  You will be a better person for it.