Return To Love - June 15

Do you ever find yourself swept up in the world’s noise — in the swirl of opinions, conflicts, and who’s right or wrong? In today’s 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz reflects on how easy it is to get lost in these stories. But for her, there’s only one true response to what’s happening in the world: to return to love. Again and again, it proves to be the only answer that truly makes sense.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott. I'm still in Exeter, Still walking and I've made it as far as the old city wall and just by Southgate which is where there used to be an old gate that stood allowing people into the city and of course it's long gone. Exeter was blitzed during the war and a lot of the old city went with the blitz and the bombing but this little section of the wall which will eventually lead me up to the Cathedral is still here and it's just behind a hotel. It's a little footpath which has got trees on either side and then this very tall sort of 20 foot wall maybe which is the old city wall on my left hand side and it's quite a place as I actually come up towards the city centre. Do you remember yesterday I started by telling you about that dear friend of ours who we love very dearly who kind of was quite shocked when I realized he'd been hijacked by his ego and it's been so unsettling I've been thinking about it every day since and I've been talking with my husband about it as well and we've continued our conversations about it and I want to continue this train of thought today so there was the being hijacked by your ego and we just considered yesterday are the times in your life where you're hijacked by your ego. Now I'll tell you what you won't know when you're hijacked by your ego because you will feel righteous and true and absolutely on the money with what you believe like it's like you are right so when you get hijacked by your ego you don't realize it because it just feels right that's the irony of it I say that's the irony of it you I mean you feel you feel as though you are rock-solid in what you're saying but it's a different feeling and this is I just startled a couple of pigeons it's a different feeling than if you feel rock-solid and grounded in what I want to talk about today as I had my husband and I talked about this interaction with this dear friend of ours and we were both a bit bit unsettled by the way he had responded to some world news in so much as he became very entrenched and polarized in his position and I don't even want to share what that was because it doesn't really matter we all do that from time to time but it was so not him it was so not the person that we knew which is why it was so shocking he is a loving grounded non-judgmental man very spiritual and does not take these entrenched positions I've never seen him take a position like that before sort of black-white right-wrong sort of way of seeing the world and my husband I talked on it more and realized that the world this is how I see it the world is full of different stories of things that are happening which are very unsettling that's how I see it and I feel that there is only one way for me to respond and I'm gonna make this about me because I genuinely don't know about other people but there's only way one way for me to respond and that is to come from the foundation of love of love and compassion and freedom and what I noticed is that my friend who I was talking about who had sort of taken this very entrenched view he had lost his power and I don't even really like using that word so maybe there's another word that I'll find at some point but he had lost his power I don't mean power isn't strong and his right and his might because he had gained that with his ego he was like rattling his saber and you know banging his drum about what was right and wrong but he'd lost his power and the power that he had lost was that connection to love and I think seeing him lost as he was made me realize how empowering it is when he's connected to that place and unempowered he is when he's not and there's something about the quality of recognizing and being around people and being that person who is rooted and grounded in love we've got a little saying my husband and I when we are wondering about what to say or do in a situation and the saying is this does this take you closer or further away from love will your actions take you closer or further away from love and I think it's really important just to say that it doesn't mean when I come from a place of love that I don't take action it means that the action I take comes from a place of love and connection and that for me is all important yeah so today is all been about reconnecting with that rock-solid place of love within us and knowing the power that comes from walking through the world and walking through the world from that power and space of love

Reviews

Thank you for sharing this experience Liz. Love and kindness are always the right choices. Your friend is lucky to have you in his life.

Thanks for these two reflections liz . It’s difficult to explain but I’ve experienced similar situations where people have acted differently to there norm . I know I have myself being a politician ,expressed views that I believe to be true maybe to the surprise of people that I’ve never seen me do so . Reflections like this are so important to keep us grounded and not be overwhelmed by the troubles of the world. 🙏

Thankyou Liz 🙏🏼
You’ve given a better approach, however I’m thinking of the trust factor. Can I trust that person again ?
Much to ponder. 🤔
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Thank you so much for sharing your precious wisdom dear Liz for telling me about your walks inside and out, reminding me of the roots of love, I breathe in and fill all my cells with love, I let it happen through me, I don't do it, I let love flow into every cell in me and yes, we are in a moving balance.