Chapter 3
We couldn’t help it. We broke the silence and our words piled up alongside our facial expressions. Shame and guilt surfaced in our memories and realities. Each of us had something to feel that way about.
She quickly understood what was happening to us and, without waiting for us to quiet down, she continued speaking: «Feeling guilt and shame is part of being human. How can we avoid feeling guilty when we cause pain to someone we love? When we realize we could have chosen differently? Or when we do something that isn’t accepted by the community? That makes us feel ashamed. When we don’t meet our own expectations. Ah! What a challenge! How can we transform these feelings?
How can we transform the intrinsic mechanism that attracts and expands darkness within us?
Remember, humanity has a state of being capable of stopping everything and creating something new: anger. When anger is tuned with light, which is more a choice and a determination, it holds the capacity to create peace, to step out of the battle and generate peace. A powerful determination is capable of remembering the absolute light and making it shine. Activating the original light. Thus, humanity can become a sword-antenna of light. A sword anchored in the ground, connected with the heart of Mother Earth, cutting through darkness and drawing in universal light.»
-Our eyes continued to ask how to achieve this. Grandma looked at us with love, compassion, and patience. She knew that from our point of view, we were just weak and inexperienced human beings, and moreover, this story she was bringing us was a work of science fiction far removed from our simple daily lives. How could we use this story as a useful example to resolve situations, or help us choose?
Grandma was silent for a long time, until our minds stopped being filled with questions and amazement and returned to silence and curiosity without expectations.
«Creating peace, shining completely is the way.
All manifestations are doing it, whether we are aware of it or not. Yet, knowing it is a call to intent. It’s accepting, without judgment and without astonishment.
We have learned that pride is a complicated emotion, which can bring with it adverse perceptions and actions. Pride, rooted in the importance of the ‘character’ we embody distracts us and creates the paradox of value, superiority, and competition. Pride is another manifestation of darkness and an antenna for its expansion. From it even wars come, starting with believing that one or the other is right in an argument, or in a belief.
Everything has been given to all, no one has more or less right. There is enough space, food, and water for everyone. Balance and harmony are available. Yet we continue in the agony of impositions. The cosmic battle, just like the daily battle.
When do we enter that battle? Well, it’s simple, every time something bothers us.
It’s easy to feel this way. When children become stubborn over something illogical, when our work environments fill with bad moods, when we’re asked to do something that strays from what is really necessary for us to do at that moment, when someone doesn’t treat us with respect simply because they are upset for some reason, etc., etc., etc. That’s when we can get angry and act from anger and awaken hate, or we can create the sword-antenna of light, and from that light respond to the immediate reality surrounding us.
Balance is a choice. Humanity has the power to create balance and harmony by remembering and accepting to be the light, and to shine.»
-That night we went to sleep with hope shining in our hearts.
/ Verónica Brands 01.04.2024
