Giving Is The Gift

Forty eight percent of human beings are dissatisfied with Obama.
while ninety nine percent of human beings are really dissatisfied with themselves.

We are looking for a political solution to a spiritual problem.
We are pointing our fingers and placing blame on anyone else.
We are looking everywhere else for the answers except where the answer is.
Which is within us, inside our self.

As a human race we wait for a magical pill.
We make movies hoping to create an alien takeover.
We put all our faith in a savior before we know ourselves.
We ignore the true problem in hope for a scientific miracle.
We pray for anything to believe in, for something to happen to make everything ok.
But only we have the power to make everything ok for ourselves.

The love we are searching for.
The pressure we feel and we need to release.
The life we desire to live.
The confidence we want.
The kindness we are waiting for must first come from ourselves if we are going to experience the happiness we so desperately crave we must first love ourselves
if we are ever going to understand how to fully love each other.

Yes we must love ourselves so we can understand how to fully love each other.
We must love ourselves no matter what, without hesitation, unconditionally, unrestricted, no limits, no judgment, no fear.
We must care for each other through thick and thin, no matter what happens, no matter how evil we think one another is.
We must let the scared, hidden smile out from within.
We must burst into blessings.
We must confer each other’s beauty.
We must go into the childhood of our soul and acknowledge the evidence of the children we all so desperately try to hide.
We must grateful for all forms of life.

We must realize we feel scared, we feel lonely, we feel ugly, we feel hurt, we feel guilty,
we feel ashamed, we feel dead, we feel hopeless, we feel dumb, we feel depressed,
we feel numb, we feel confused, we feel used, we feel embarrassed, we feel lied to.
We must realize how we feel and not be afraid to feel that way or condemn ourselves for the way we feel or condemn any other for how they feel.
We must know everything is ok and it does not make us horrible people.
We must know there is no reason to be ashamed.
We must understand that is how we feel and it is completely ok so we can understand why we feel that way so we can understand we have the power to change.

We do not have to repress our darkness anymore.
We can bring it to the light.
We no longer have to drain ourselves to be fake public nice.
We no longer have to fear what people might think.
We no longer have to give with calculated generosity.
We no longer have to smile a political smile and wink “vote for me.”
We no longer have to set ourselves up to be who we are not.
We can use our true blessed feel good kindness.
We can creatively work with the energy of the people and we can teach each other how we would like to be treated using our own intuitive knowing, our blessed light, our loving hearts.

We no longer have to give to please the ego.
We know the ego can’t give us what we need.
We have proved our own point over and over and over to ourselves and everyone else.
We have been slaughtered by hatred and butchered by greed.
We have seen the world we have allowed to be and we understand we are not happy.
We understand we are not doing our best.
So instead we can give our best when we begin to give to simply be!

We no longer have to give to get.
We can give our love from heart to heart!
We can give to give.
We can give to be free.
We can do what feels pure and right!
We can do what we have always wanted to do!
We can give from every aspect of our life!
We can give to let go, give to move on, give to transcend.
We can give to the spirit from the spirit.
We can give to the friend from the friend.
We can give to the life from the aliveness within.
We can give to the love from the infinite.
We can give without expectation, without limits.
We can give with arms full of roses.

Giving is what we are missing.
Giving is what makes us happiest.
Giving is what makes us feel beautiful.
Giving is what makes us feel alive.

When we were born we were each given life.
Even now, look around, we are given water, space, land, and time.
We are given whatever we can find.
We are given whatever our minds are aware enough to know is a gift!

We are given the gift of us.
We are the blessed gift.
Let us give the gift of ourselves to each other!
Let us give the gift of our joy, of our warmth, of our hearts, of our love!
Let us give the gift of our knowledge, of our compassion, of our understanding!
Let us give the gift of our mystery, of our beauty, of our blessings!

It is impossible to bless someone and judge them at the same time.
So let us give the gift of blessing.
Walk by a school and bless the people inside.
Ride by a hospital and bless the people inside.
Drive by a prison and bless the people inside.
At dinner bless the waiter.
At work bless the boss,
At home bless your family.

Giving is a practice so let us consciously practice on each other.
For we can and will understand the gift inside.
The gift inside of us growing.
The gift inside of us alive.
The gift inside of us awakening.
The gift inside of us laughing.
The gift inside of us caring.
The gift inside of us smiling.
The gift inside of us loving.
The gift inside of us giving.


Justin Blackburn
Poem from "You Are Not A Normal Human Being"
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