Rose-Coloured Glasses and Abraham on World Peace

I love this quote I got today from my Abraham-Hicks daily quote subscription...

"World peace, means one mindset big enough to make the decisions about what everybody else wants, and the rest of the world conforming. That is the ultimate definition of world peace. You say, "Oh, let's get along!" And what each of you mean is, "You do what I want." A peaceful world means, "Everybody wanting what I want. Going along with what I want." And the only problem with that is, there are more than one of you, and you have endless desires that are born within you. The ultimate experience is, everyone having their experience and launching their individual rockets of desire, and the Universe yielding to all of them simultaneously. And everybody not worrying about what anybody else created, and so, then allowing what they are wanting. What a world that is, when there are endless desirers, who are allowing the fulfillment of their own desires."

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001 #369

My Take on this...

We are ultimately responsible for ourselves and our own lives. We so often think we're being helpful when really we're pushing our own agendas onto someone else, or in this case, the whole world! It's ironic and pretty funny when I think about it. Who am I to determine what's best for someone else I don't even know? How do I know what an individual came here to experience? I don't!

If I want to experience peace, I find it best to go within myself first, gently nudge my spirit and awaken to the vibration of peace once again. When I say "once again," it's because it's not like I'm always in high vibration wonderland. Life happens! I'm usually feeling pretty connected to Source/Spirit but there are times when I'm definitely angry or sad or frustrated. And some of those times are defining moments for me, that help me grow and move toward what I really do want.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the time I spend in high vibration wonderland! Everything has so much colour and beauty, and I notice all kinds of little cool things that I wouldn't notice if I was feeling angry or frustrated, out of sync. But without living both sides of the coin - the fulfillment of my desires and the contrast - life just wouldn't be so interesting. Besides, once I had it all, so to speak, if I stopped experiencing stuff I don't like, I wouldn't know what to desire!

I remember shortly after 9/11, I had chosen to join a peace march - something I don't usually do. But this one, I had been told, had the positive focus of being "for peace", so I went. I found it so weird that right in the middle of a peace march, there were people shaking their fists and shouting at the top of their lungs, just filled with rage about the violence that they were fighting against. For me, they were demonstrating the very thing they were railing against. So if that was a cross-section of people who want world peace, I can certainly see how everyone's idea of peace is not the same!

The idea of looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses - I remember hearing that a lot as a disparaging remark. But I embrace it now.

Learning to view my painful past - and whatever is happening in my present moment - through my own custom-made "rose-coloured glasses" has helped me to get healing, teachings, inspiration and other gifts out of every experience, and bounce back relatively quickly when I do experience the contrast life brings me. 

I've always wanted world peace, and ever since I was a small child, I've always wondered how a human being could intentionally treat another human being badly and feel good about it. I think the best I can do for myself is surround myself with people whose energy feels good and peaceful to me, and filter out the rest. That's why on Twitter, I have a list of people who are uplifters, healers and people who inspire me.

For now, I'll just put on my rose-coloured glasses and go for a walk. Well, I might take them off to see that fabulously blue sky, but wait! If I leave them on, the sky will be purple. Cool!

So this is only MY take, my perception, my ideas about what I read this morning. 

What's yours?