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How do you marshal love against tyranny when tyranny offers to meet people’s baseline security needs?
Scarcity surrounding our root physiological needs such food, water and shelter are the foundation for tyranny. As Abraham Maslow pointed out through his hierarchy of needs, one cannot reach self-actualization without first meeting basic survival and psychological needs.
The inner tyrant looms large within all of us due to societal indoctrination regarding scarcity of our root survival needs.
When scarcity is present, will you choose love or tyranny?
Tyranny chooses the path of perceived certainty, safety, and stability. This is operating from your fight, flight or freeze instincts and creating a life that is built on surviving within the confined norms of our system. Morality is disregarded. Spirit is disconnected. The mind is dominant as the heart closes off in a world fueled by analytical reasoning. Tyranny offers their hand to you in the darkest moment as an escape from pain at the cost of your soul.
Love chooses what’s right, regardless of the personal consequences for doing so. It is an unknown path driven by the heart, unable to be explained or defined by the preconceived notions of the mind. The choice of love is the most courageous act we can ever make. When we choose it, tyranny roars its head as a way to make us test our newfound commitment.
There is no love without pain.
Why choose an unknown path of the heart when safety offers us the greatest chance at survival?
In a tyrannical state, all baseline needs would be met. So what is it that’s missing in the controlled simulation of tyranny? What needs of the human spirit are unable to be met in tyranny?
The spirit of mankind, the animating force generating all meaning, is activated through a choice of love. Self-awareness becomes the gift and curse as you move beyond even survival needs to see oneself as light entombed in anatomy.
The awakened man needs to experience extreme polarities and hardships before understanding balance. Settling for domesticated stability and comfort creates a docile follower.
Self-awareness, the quest to know who we are, becomes both our greatest gift and curse. Ignorance is bliss for the blind who follow the mind. Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Hedonistic pursuits may bring temporary pleasure. Corporate slavery may bring shelter and food. But what is the point of any of it when you trade your heart for the opportunity to succeed within the walls of an insane asylum? Don’t you want to know what lives beyond the confines of your mind? The truth is right there waiting to be recognized, but first we must acknowledge how we were led into the slaughters of our self-constructed Human Zoo.
The key to our cages lives inside us already, but it requires a breaking down of the armor we’ve placed over our heart. The ultimate sacrifice must be made, where you let who you thought you were go by acknowledging your biggest fears and taking full responsibility for life you’ve come to create.
Tyranny will tell you the solution of today lives outside yourself. They will tell you in a dangerous uncontrollable world, you must seek shelter and escape un order to survive.
Love will tell you simply to look inside. In a world full of darkness, be the light that can serve as a guide for others to remember the power of their heart. Even when you die, the impact of your life will transcend all material desires.
Heart lead, brain follow.
Don’t allow a tyrant, especially the one within, close your heart into scarcity.
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