This, I Believe

The Zoroastrian belief holds that one is constantly struggling with the devil who wants to kill one’s inner child through one’s own behavior, says a friend raised in one of their schools.  For a long time, I didn’t understand that simple actions could be in harmony with the natural order of things—could contribute to the ease of the world, or, alternatively, cause inelegance, stuckage.  The Asian art of feng shui, that of placement, shows that energy can flow around and open up your spaces and your psychological life.  Brooks Palmer is a best-selling author for his classic book, Clutterbusting, which describes the process of “Can we let this go?”  Another author, Julia Mossbridge, coined the term, “Let’s all be more like ourselves!” 

All Unitarians, I believe, can fight the good fight and save ourselves as human beings, and become world citizens.  When all people live in consciousness of our full  energies, and nothing is holding us back from being ourselves, we can embrace the whole of Life and be much happier.  Yet to do so, we need the inspiration of each others’ spirituality, and to appreciate that there is a big world out there with human differences galore.  But one thing we all have is yin—feminine, passive, and dark—and yang, masculine, active and light—energies. 

“The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”  ~John 1:5,  Bible.  This is the story of my life until recently.   Always a peace-lover, I initially figured, unconsciously—because of parental screwups at an early age—that by rejecting yang, the world would be helped—strength could come only from yin beauty.  But there is a place for the male, as I have found.  Sexuality is great, and to be cultivated, not to be frightened of.

My mission: to be a spiritual leader: ‘I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,’” John 1:23,  Bible.  This seems to me to be my purpose: helping yin be yin and yang be yang, and the two to attract yet stay different from each other, initiating a spiral type of movement, working and playing together!  As Pope Francis said in 2015 (as recorded in the book, Give Us This Day Our Daily Love: Pope Francis on the Family, Boston: Pauline Books and Media), “This is what marriage is all about: man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband become ever more a man,” (p. 13).

“I’ve spent all my life looking for the answer: are we human, or are we dancer?” goes the Killers’ song “Human:”  Who named us Homo sapiens sapiens (Man wise wise)?  Do we really think we are that smart, or should be?  What would a deity like to see, looking at Her/His creation?  Life reading a book, never moving around?  Let’s be Homo sapiens dancer!  We can use my favorite proverb, an Estonian one: “The work will teach you how to do it!”