On ‘doing good’

These things people call amazing coincidences, synchronicity, small miracles—this is the way the world is supposed to work. It is only that the world is in slumber, like a sleeping person who does not see, does not hear, does not speak—so that nothing distinguishes his head from his feet, his heart from his brain. So too, the world lies deep in a dream where anything is possible, but nothing seems to have a goal. Where only chaos reigns.

It takes only one person to open his eyes, his ears, his mind and his heart, and the objects of this world fall into place and work together as a single whole. Synchronized. As they were meant to be.
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman.

I read Albert Schweitzer’s auto-biography decades ago and remember thinking that this could have been me in a prior life. Someone who felt that we have to take the Gospel of Christ literally. His dissertation subject was the historical Jesus and he wanted to do his part of ‘doing good’ by becoming a medical doctor and by making it his life mission to help people in Africa. I only remember two things about this auto-biography. One, in his eagerness to help others he was suspected of being a thief when he always offered to carry people’s suitcases up the stairs on train-stations. And two, while in Africa, he became violently sick and nearly died. It took him a long time to recover from this disease. These two occurrences are related in my opinion. He was trying too hard to be good; his subconscious needed a while to catch up with him. Few of us are born angels. His illness was essentially a long time-out to allow him to take a good rest and get some introspection.

I started this note with the neat Law of Attraction message for a good reason. We don’t need to be ‘doing good.’ We don’t need to try to walk in Jesus’ footsteps. We are abundance. We are love. We are serenity. Sure, a little healing and learning we all have to do. So if you want to build hospitals in Africa—or here in the US for that matter—to help folks in distress, then that is great. Yet, most importantly, show us that ‘You are That’. Create the revolution within. That’s how you truly catapult humanity to the next level of Consciousness. I always give my spiritual friends the same mission statement, show us how it is done!

After writing this note I wanted to check whether I could have been Albert in a prior life. Turned out he died September 4, 1965. So unfortunately I can’t take credit for his amazing accomplishments. I was born 20 days before.