“Today we’re going through some very dramatic changes — politically, economically and as a society — and if we don’t see the big picture, if we just get caught up in the little things and forget the joy of seeing that there is much more to what is going on than those little things, the tendency is that we become trapped by that, and that is all we see and we lose hope and we lose that trust that is part of being alive as a human being.
In the end, every human being has to go through different experiences, that’s why we’re human and the experiences can feel very nice and other times they can feel painful but it is our perspective of those experiences that makes a big difference. If we limit our thinking to the more dualistic thinking — this is good, and I don’t want to ever miss out on having such a good experience, and this is bad — then we already have placed our experience in little boxes and then the tendency is that those boxes don’t actually allow us to move beyond those boxes and we end up getting caught up in the good and the bad which creates conflict and suffering in human beings.
But, if we can raise our consciousness above such, we see that life is much more than good or bad or much more than the smallest boxes that the mind likes to place such things into and we understand that there’s a consequence to everything and that that consequence is not feeling good or feeling bad but rather transcending those limitations to a space where there is expansion and that expansion is part of joy. I feel that is what we’re struggling to realise in today’s world, to come to that sense of joy, not just as an individual but as a culture and it’s hard work. This is why it is a very intense time of change. I feel that it is not to suffer or to feel pain but rather to realise that love can be understood in everything and beauty is part of everything. Sometimes it takes a long time, a whole lifetime but why not start practicing from that perspective? Why not see the love and beauty that is in everything, even if emotionally or physically that is not the total experience? If we have that focus and understanding and trust, I feel that that becomes much more part of our reality — part of the new era where the oneness of all is made possible in a tangible, intuitive way”.

Tony Samara