We rail against them, even as they make themselves heard through the democratic mechanisms that were created for precisely this purpose. Trump is not a cancer. Trump is
symptomatic of the rot at the core of our experience – the idea that there is a separation between us, and that we get to be selective in how we see ourselves in the other. Either we are all one, or we are not. We don’t get to have it both ways. We just don’t. This moment does not demand
Compassion is not selective, it is universal. Without it, we continue to experience ‘the other’ as somehow being separate, as being ‘not us’.
anything of us. No moment ever does. This moment invites us to the possibility of a deeper seeing, it invites us to the possibility of knowing ourselves more fully, it invites us to the possibility of a deep, deep compassion for the suffering that so often motivates unconscious and harmful behaviours. It invites us to remember the innocence of all peoples, and to recognise that if we want peace, then it begins within. The invitation in this moment is to
feel all there is to feel, and to simply let it be here, to offer the fullness of our humanity to each other, and to graciously accept the humanity of others, regardless of whether or not we’re repulsed by the face that it wears. Donald Trump is a wave, as are
his supporters. They will surge, and crest, and crash, and wash away, as all waves do. Yet we are the ocean,
and they live within us. We are nothing without each other. This moment is an invitation to
pause, breathe, and be grateful for the opportunity to know ourselves and each other, and to love ourselves and each other, more deeply than we ever have before. I invite us to abandon our cities, and
our privileged grief, and load up our hybrid cars, and art-cars and kombis, and drive deep into the belly of our nation, and start a conversation or two. Greet every stranger with a silent namaste and bow before the Life that animates them. Ask them what they fear. Ask them what they need. Ask them what they love. “... if it is a despot you would dethrone,
see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. ■
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Cameron Burgess is a global speaker, entrepreneur and business strategist with expertise in aligning love, knowledge and action in
service to a better world.
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