Evil

Whilst spectating at the 94.7 road race yesterday,I was asked by a bystander whether I believed in evil. I don't feel that the words I used did justice to what I feel in my heart and therefore felt the need to try and capture the real essence of what I feel, so here goes.

I came across this quote this morning:

"Evil is what happens when man doesn't have God in his heart." Alfred Einstein

To understand evil it is first important to understand what love is. I believe in love. Love is everything that is. Love is pure creative energy. It is eternal, has no beginning and no end. Love is constant motion. It cannot be curtailed, owned, bought or sold. You can access love freely. There is more than enough love to go around. It never runs out. It is a bottomless well from which you can refresh and recharge for eternity. Love is power. Love is presence, consciousness and is the only thing that I can honestly say is real. Love is the everlasting residing presence in the background of my existence. Love is the intangible that makes me cry real tears when I just feel its magnificent presence. You cannot see love, but you certainly can feel it. Love is awesome and it is the essence that gives my life direction and meaning. It is the inner guidance and voice that motivates me to dig deeper and unearth my highest potential.

We all have love within us. We are made out of love, by love itself. But sometimes even oftentimes we forget this awesome power that imbibes us. We entertain fear and the thought of separation and in our misguided thoughts about being alone we forget our inner spirit presence. We doubt our power and our excellence and through our minds we play with the thought that we are separate from our 'love centre' and that we need to desperately seek it, buy it, own it or steal it. We feel insecure and worthless and paralytic with fear.

When we entertain doubt and allow fear to grip us, because that is exactly what it does, it creates a tight tourniquet which completely restricts the constant flowing force of love within. Hence the power that was divinely channelling through us, no longer passes through our veins. Without the flow we become stagnant. Our ideas and thoughts become depressed and negative. We stop reflecting love and therefore we witness fear and lack of love wherever we turn, because what we are is reflected back at us through the eyes of others. It says in the bible somewhere  'As a man thinketh, so is he".

When we switch off our power centre, we experience a massive power failure. It is equivalent to when Eskom has a massive power cut in the middle of winter on the coldest, darkest night. Our fear is very real because in the dark we cannot see that there are others nearby. We feel enveloped in separateness and fearful of the creeping cold. When the light and with it the warmth go out, survival becomes our sole concern. In our separateness we begin an inner struggle to compete and fight for life. It becomes us against them as we begin our outer search for external fulfillment. In the dark fear becomes a very real experience. In this state we do not create anything. We just remain fixated and trembling on the spot.

Now enters 'evil'. From this space of uselessness and powerlessness, our minds are easily sabotaged by our egos. We entertain thoughts of fighting 'til death for shelter, warmth and food. We feel sucked into the belief that there are limited supplies of all our needs. We feel the urge to fight and compete. We believe that it is the strongest that will survive and hence our minds start to manufacture devious ways of outdoing and outsmarting the rest.

We start to create negatively. We plot and connive in secret. We plan to overthrow and control others in the interest of building our own self esteem, wealth and material assets.

But in this frenzy, we feel no peace, just paranoia. We constantly look over our shoulders to see who is about to stab us in the back and steal from us what we have stolen. We no longer feel the warmth and protection we felt when we accessed the love within. By our thoughts we have created distance for ourselves from LOVE. The more we plot evil the darker our world within and our perception of the world without. We no longer see just fear on others faces. We see a dangerous and evil place. We see hatred and bitterness and greed. We see what we are manifesting mirrored by others and it appears very real.

But at any time we are able to recreate our thoughts and select the 'on' button to open the gates of love. All we need do is remember that we are love and permit it to flow. As the essence begins to flow through our veins we begin to thaw out. Warmth imbibes us, renews us, refreshes and enlivens us. Power flows through every circuit in our bodies. We feel alive and filled with hope and peace. We feel satiated and whole and connected to our creative genius. We are happy and content and feel interconnected with all.

So, to reword Einstein's quote I would venture that we all have God in our hearts, but we sometimes forget and when we do all our power evades us. If we shut off our power supply we become malleable to evil and dark ways. But at any time that we regain consciousness of our inherent 'power centre' which is love, the power shifts from negative to positive creation.

So, let's stay connected and never forget our 'love' because it is our love that gives us hope and it is that which we see mirrored in our world around us.

Have a beautiful week

love
Nicolette