You Are The One Holding The Stone

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You Are The One Holding The Stone

So much of the world's attention is focused on the result of the US election and there is not doubt, it has big ramifications worldwide. The thing is, we place such a great emphasis on these so called world leaders and sometimes we forget our role in the big picture of evolution. 

The world is always evolving from less sophistication to greater sophistication and to create a better world, takes more than one person. It doesn't happen in isolation, but it does require someone to throw the stone into the lake and create the ripple of raising the collective consciousness. 

If you are reading this, you are the one holding the stone. 

Research indicates that taking responsibility for your own state of consciousness will have a harmonising effect on the environment. As my ever-inspiring teacher Thom Knoles would say “be one of the few who lead the many”.

This week, Thom emailed his thoughts on elections and leaders, which he wrote before the 2016 election. The points below are still, if not more relevant today.

The world is for us as we can be for it.​

• Your own state of consciousness is all you know; to change the world, change your own state of consciousness. You cannot stop a collective from behaving in accordance with its state of consciousness. You, too, behave only in accordance with your own state of consciousness.

• Your suffering is the result of your inaccurate expectations; it is not the responsibility of another.

​• Nothing new happened that did not exist already; it is a shame to be surprised when a walnut tree produces walnuts. Act accordingly.

​• "Leaders" are the mirror of the average state of collective consciousness; "leaders" are led by, and constrained by, a collective alone (there is no "leader" without enthusiastic followers).

• Raise the average; be personally exemplary of a higher consciousness state; until, personally, you lift the average, the collective behaves simply predictably. Don't expect "leaders" to lift a collective; that is grass-roots activity, it is your activity.

* These points are applicable universally.