It was an eye opening day the first time I realized that the world is perfect.  Not perfected, just perfect.

The world is perfect for us to grow.  We weren’t sent here to eek by or survive, that’s part of some people’s journey.  But we are here to grow and become greater than what we were before, just as a child grows to become like his parents.

Instead of seeing the things in your life that you don’t like, that you think of as imperfect, see them as opportunities to grow.  Perfect opportunities.  Even the withered arm on a crippled man is still a perfectly withered arm.  Even pain and suffering are perfect.  They exist for us because we have not been perfected yet, and they present the perfect opportunity to transcend them.  How to do that… well we’re all learning aren’t we?  I believe that once our hearts are perfected our world will be too.  As above, so below.  As within, so without.

Some people are so weighed down with trying to make it from day to day, or keeping up with the latest fashions, or making their car payments that they have never had that Matrix awakening moment where you realize that this world is not the only one, and indeed it’s a Contested World.  It’s our choice whether or not we want our world to be a paradise or a wasteland.  We happen to be at the tipping point one way or the other.

How much thought have you given to the world you are helping to create everyday?  What kind of world do you want your children to inherit?  Most importantly, what are you doing to create that world?  Becoming the most successful person in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you raped the planet to get there.  If your children have to grow up in an uglier world, what kind of parent are you?

Begin with imagining your Perfected World, what kind of place is it?  Where do people live?  What is their quality of life?  Is everyone equally happy, or is it an elitest world, where only the privledged have the opportunities to  pursue happiness?  Think about things like our food source… do we put toxic chemicals on our food in the future?  What about our houses?  What do they look like?  Do they get even larger and more separate from their environment, or do they merge together with it?  How about our jobs and school system?  Do we still work 50 hours a week at jobs that we hate?  Or do we get to enjoy our lives and work in the way that we choose?  What about money?  Do we still have currency, or do we invent something better?  Do we become more commercial, consuming more products, or do we have better things to do than watch TV and play video games and surf the internet?  How do we travel?  Do we ever solve the fossil fuel problem?  Do we go electric and solar, or do we invent some new technology?  Maybe we fly everywhere instead of drive?

Really think about it.  Talk about it with your friends, ask them what kind of world they would create for their children.

Then the fun part… The part that should put a smile on your face, or tell you that you need a new picture of the future, one in which you are smiling…  Now that you have a picture of where you are going, you can begin to break that down into small chunks.  Just like eating an apple, you can’t eat the whole thing at once, so you take small chunks of it and before you know it, you’ve accomplished your task.  In the beginning, this might look like eating low on the food chain (vegetarian), recycling, organic gardening in your yard (or even on the balcony of your apartment).  You might keep your old car a little longer so you can save up and buy a hybrid or wait for one of the new electric or hydrogen cars.  If you live in the city, maybe you bike to work, or walk a few times a week.  If you’re building a new house, maybe you build it off the grid, with solar and wind energy fueling your electric needs.  Maybe you avoid toxic chemicals in your household cleaners.  Maybe you petition your city to stop drugging your water supply with unnatural chemicals and pharmaceuticals.  Maybe you plant some trees on your birthday to counter how much paper products you use each year.

Each and every thing in this world is perfect for you, and with your growth, this perfect world becomes perfected.  Create beauty on the inside and beauty will manifest on the outside.

Think about it…