How to Make a New Earth

“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.” ―Margaret Walker

There is another way to live on Earth. It is a dream that is in our collective unconscious, because in truth we are One.

One day it will happen for the whole world. But for now, let’s start with one person. Yourself.

The day you live your life from the heart, creating a life that resonates with your deepest truest values, is the first day of freedom. The day you choose emotional authenticity…i.e., speaking the innermost emotional truth, that’s the day that you can cut the ties of fear and live from your soul. It may not happen immediately, because most of us have baggage in real life because we compromised. We lived someone else’s life, because it was the easier thing to do or we didn’t know better. Usually it is because we didn’t trust the soul song of our soul. We thought it is too crazy, it is too weird, or we couldn’t find a box to fit in.

Living one’s own life is an act of boldness and courage that few partake in. Very few men and very very few women, dare to live their life. It can mean carving a path that has not been carved before. Most of the struggle, however, is in your own mind. It isn’t that weird. It isn’t that crazy. It isn’t at all insane. What comes from your soul, from the deepest longings of your heart, is the greatest truth. Truth prevails when all else fails. Truth carves paths, where there are none. Truth, your deepest emotional truth, that truth that makes you cry your eyes out, that truth is what your soul came here to experience. That’s the place where God resides in you.

If you turn away from it, if you shrug your shoulders and block it up with lies–nice sounding lies, socially acceptable nonsense, that’s when you miss it.

It is so easy to miss. It is so easy to get ‘logical’, less emotional and less passionate. It is so easy to mistake insanity for sanity. We see it all the time.

The appropriate life walks beside the honest life. One is the trickster–it is the devil. It can feed you. It can clothe you. It can give you friends. The friends will be false, the money will feel like a burden and the clothes like the apparel of convicts. Then there is the life of truth. The clothes may get old. The friends will be few, but very true. They will be people with whom you can be yourself. Shelter, food, and belonging will come on this path. This is a path of soul fulfillment. It is not the path of rules. There is no rulebook in the path of the soul. yet, there are texts, where you can see that somebody walked just like you did. And these are the books from the wise ones, who guard over us to this day, hoping that we don’t kill ourselves in our madness to have it all.

The day we live our soul’s purpose, that day the empty cave of our heart feels as if it is alive. As if something can grow here, like the first leaf of spring. Every day the struggle will be whether to kill that one single leaf that dared to grow or to nurture it?

If you let it be, and keep on despite all that you don’t know, all that could go wrong, all that may never work, and resist chopping that single leaf of joy until it is shredded with guilt and fear….one day a whole branch emerges. A small part of your heart is alive.

If you carry on, the tree flourishes. Until one day there is no need for anything, because of you have the tree of life inside your heart.

You are connected to the anima mundi, the soul of the planet, what some call god, and you need nothing else. You are now in synch with the heart of the planet. You are alive and the planet is alive with you. You have so much, that you don’t know what to do some days.

You share it. You give it. You hope that a verdant abundant tree branch can give life for someone else.

People may think it is just a shabby old branch. What can this humble little twig do?

Plant it, you tell them. Love it. What you seek is inside you. You are already where you hope to be. This life you were given is a miracle. You are unconditionally loved. You have power beyond belief….

Water it. Give it sunshine. Stop worrying. This seemingly simple act of closing your eyes and listening to the heart, where the tree grows has the power to transform the world and your life.

This is how the New Earth will be made. One tree. One branch. One hope. One day at a time.

Never, ever stop believing. You are part of the great code of life on this planet. Your choices affect us all.