You are a human being. What does this mean? Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and Being. Mother, father, husband, wife, young, old, the roles you play, the functions you fulfill, whatever you do—all that belongs to the human dimension. It has its place and needs to be honored, but in itself it is not enough for a fulfilled, truly meaningful relationship or life. Human alone is never enough, no matter how hard you try or what you achieve. Then there is Being. It is found in the still, alert presence of Consciousness itself, the consciousness that you are. Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate, but interwoven. ~Eckhart Tolle, ~A New Earth

Read this quotation two or three times if you need to, really take it in, really grasp its meaning in your life. We are not human doings, but human beings. That is the key. We need to keep a balance of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual if we are going to manifest a life of health, wellness, passion, and truth. There is no other way.

Today, life is changing and evolving at a phenomenal pace. We have arrived at a juncture in our path of evolution, and we now face a shift in planetary life that requires everyone to consciously choose a healthier and more sustainable future, if we are going to make it to the next level. I am hopeful. I believe that we hold this vision in our hearts and souls. More than 2,000,000 organizations are spiritually activated and presently working toward environmentally sustainable, socially just, and thriving world. This is the largest social movement of all time and so few know that it is happening. Shift and change are happening in all fields and everywhere around us. You will be amazed if you look deeper.

The arc of the moral universe - bends toward justice. ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Certainly we can see an uprising of change in the Arab Spring, the spread of local food and farms, the Occupy Movement, sustainability, and wind and solar projects. There is a wider acceptance of gay rights and gay marriage. Women are speaking up against the broad prejudices and abuses aimed at them.

As we move into a feminine-based world, we are seeing more women as heads of state and in positions of power. A male-dominated competitive and warring world is being transformed into a female, energetic model that will be a more peaceful, loving, and conscious world. We are balancing masculine and feminine energies as we move toward a co-creative, cooperative venture that embraces both our female as well as our masculine aspects. Men's hearts are awakening and they are more vocal in embracing their own divine life. Men are finally ready to open themselves to their gentler, heart-centered, and more feminine characteristics. What a sigh of relief I am hearing....

People everywhere are speaking up and demanding change. We are now standing for what we want, and we are no longer resisting what we oppose. This shift involves a global uprising and a worldwide spiritual awakening. Mankind and womankind together are recognizing their power as a conscious force. The impulse of evolution, based on non-traditional and evolutionary paradigms, is bringing in new values, new ways of being, and fresh solutions to our challenges. This growing movement toward a unified, global community of oneness is a tremendous change in the very foundation of human consciousness. Those involved in this movement understand that we must focus on achieving sustainability and on loving, respecting, and revering both Mother Earth and ourselves. We must live as nature does, in not taking more from nature than we truly need. We must live a heart-centered life and serve the whole and not just ourselves. There is no other way that we can truly be.

Humanity is going to require a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive. ~Albert Einstein

Many spiritual philosophers say that nothing like this movement has ever happened in the history of our world. Many of us have been waiting and praying a long time for this. This is very exciting!

When we can just Be, connect with our heart, inner wisdom, and spiritual intelligence (whatever that may mean to you-God-Force, Spirit, Christ, I AM, Higher Self, Buddha, etc.) we will find that we are moving mountains. We have to connect with that part of ourselves that is timeless, powerful, compassionate, and fulfilled in a state of just being. That is our fate.

Rudolf Steiner, the brilliant mystic and author, talked in depth about unseen worlds in many of his books. He felt that during his generation, people had lost touch with a deeply spiritual connection to God. He shares his feelings in his book Staying Connected:

Dying is part of living. Yet, during the last few centuries, we have preferred to deny death by making it an end so final that it is unthinkable-a void, absolute negation. We thought we did so because we loved life. In fact we did so because in our obsession with material things occupying space, we lost the ability to understand that life extends far beyond the limits of our five senses. We lost the sense that the visible world is merely the tip of an unquantifiable, qualitative, invisible reality. That is to say we "lost" the spiritual world and, having lost it, can no longer imagine that life can take forms other than the purely physical form we have made supreme: the only reality.

Andrew Cohen, author of Evolutionary Enlightenment speaks of God in the following way: "God represents the creative principle, the First Cause, or Eros, the elemental driving force behind the evolving universe. God is what I call the 'evolutionary impulse' that overwhelming urge to Become that emerges from the deepest dimension of Being itself, which of course, is not separate from your very own consciousness."

When we continually live in the space of form and the physical, we disconnect with formlessness. We actually operate in a different way than if we incorporate both. When we choose to incorporate both we go beyond the physical. Then we live with spirituality in all that we do and all that we are. We find our way Home.

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