(05-02-2016, 08:02 PM)cel Wrote: Retreating inwards to indulge in raising my own vibration, isn’t that service-to-self? Service-to-others would involve being active in the real world, perhaps helping at a soup kitchen, caring for the sick in a rough neighbourhood, helping out at a local charity (or a zillion other possibilities). But what I was trying to get at is that by expropriating the wealth of the fifty richest families, international develop scholars estimate we could feed and educate all of Africa for 10 years. Wouldn’t genuine democratic socialism with liberty for all be service-to-others enforced by law? Wouldn’t wealth redistribution by the ultimate form of service-to-others? Of course pretty much all forms of communism up to this point in human history are failed projects. That is, they created more misery and oppression than they solved. But I like what Bill Gates and the UN have done together. If only Bill’s benevolent, successful efforts were increased by 10 or 100 fold, we could eradicate poverty. It’s possible. Bernie Sanders was close. Ron Paul in 2008 was close to liberating the Third World from the global debt collectors. With the internet and social media syndicates we have come to know and love, me and the cohort of my generation are gonna achieve some positive, remarkable things in the 21st century.
No it is not service to self. What you experience outside of you is a direct reflection of what you experience inside of you. Then if you experience a lot of struggle from the outer world it means you experience it inside too. Helping others is a good thing but the truth is there will always be people who need help. If you don't help yourself you are gonna burn yourself and cut your own wings. Without your wings you cannot help much. If you make peace with the world the world will make peace with you. If you fight it like it is external to you it will feel like you are external to the world. If ultimately you have thirst for unity and peace then there is no other way than doing so with yourself. Once you reach that the world will feel like already complete, already one, already united and ever well. This is what Ra means when he says ALL IS WELL. Everything is desired and the universe answers by providing everything that is desired. If you cannot accept everything that you see in the world as part of yourself, you will endlessly fight yourself and never reach that sense of having been a positive force of change in this world. This of course doesn't mean to stop taking action toward peace and unity but instead requires a shift of perspective in seeing how all is already well and everything is already as it should. Once you know that deep inside as being universal truth, you will know peace. You will become love. You will be a beacon of light on this world. Quo even said this world isn't meant to be changed, it is meant to be understood and loved for what it is. And what is it? It is experience in infinite forms. And every experience is valid