"...everywhere life is full of heroism..."

I believe in a lot of things. One of the things I believe in most is other people's ability to teach us how to be our best selves when we open our minds and hearts to them and the wisdom handed down to them by their sources of strength and truth. We can't think people are bad, that just won't work for us. We have to trust. I think it's important to trust BOTH that we are so messed up sometimes, AND also that we are SO great always, as created beings. And the greatness always has a window that can be gotten through to help lift us up to greatness as a humanity when we trust and love and take personal responsibility for trusting and loving and growing with others each day.

I also believe in our gut. I get that we are not right a lot of times, that our heart can mislead us, can make us so selfish, even as it allows us to love. But our gut, I think that while the heart takes in the song of our soul, the gut, whatever that is, takes into our minds the voice and reason of our soul. The voice that says to us from our soul, it's not right to treat other people like that, even if my parent, school, church, heart, brain, television, spouse, office, country...says it is perfectly good to treat people like that through word and deed.

Believing in people and believing in the gut, I think it's incredibly important to look for mentors and inspiration from others and "the other" based on that gut. We have God, but we also have history and ancestors and those same parents, schools, churches, etc. who have had God before us. They were created before us for the purpose of sharing and teaching and unifying the existence of things in the space-time continuum. That's another one of those things I believe.

These ideas popped into my mind as I read a blog I follow where the author felt the power and necessity of making sure "we follow closely enough to be covered by the dust off the path our Master is walking" and through this, and only this, how we can achieve true sanity.

How cool. How true. How important to ask ourselves who and what ideas are our masters, are our "schools" - of thought, of nature, of society. How neccessary to ask ourselves if the dust that covers us from the path of our masters is of truth, health, life, love, or of other kinds of, um.. more dusty, dust.

Speaking of this, and of other blog-related ideas and projects I love, this is one:See? As M, one of my masters, tells me to read in the Desiderata, "...no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should..."