Picking sides

We are divided into camps
Left or right
In or out
For or against
Black or white
Hate or love
Yes or no
My way or the highway
Fit in or…
Picking sides

Battling each other
There are no winners
We are all on the same side
We are all human
Choose each other
Be love
Be joy
Be kind
Be one
Be awake
Be conscious

They manipulate our minds
They make us choose
They make us judge
We form opinions of us and them
Divided we fall
Picking sides separates us
Love keeps us together

If you can’t see it

In order to find our inner peace, we need to step away from the mind. We need to simply observe our thoughts, do not energise them by responding. The mind is like a magnet, it draws us into a vortex of unnecessary and often destructive thoughts.

The mind, however, has many strategies to deny us peace.

The majority of them are so normal, constantly there, like a static white noise in the background, that we are not even aware of them. The pattern just keeps repeating and we wonder why we stay stuck.

It is like a broken record that plays over and over with the same themes. It will tell us we are not good enough, a failure, not popular, not worthy, a bad this and a bad that and so on. The noise is there all the time and it is only when we become conscious that we can see them and hear them.

Our consciousness is a light and we can shine that light on the darkness of our thoughts that hide in the recesses of our mind.

If you can’t see it, you can’t change it.