It’s 5:59 AM, EST.
Raindrops dance across my roof like twinkle-toed ballerinas and danseurs, courting each other in a timeless pageant.
The day is pregnant with potential; a world of love is itching to be manifested.
And as I sit here, my desk lamp flickers, filling my room with faux-candle light and filling my mind with images of generations gone by.
As my mind travels back in time, I see visions of my grandfather serving in World War II. I think of the 42 bombing runs he made over Nazi Germany. I see my my Portuguese great-grandmother, appalled that my mother would date (and later marry) a Frenchmen. I see the slaves that my ancestors kept.
I see a great expanse of time, punctuated by a pervasive belief in “us” vs. “them.”
Money isn’t the root of all evil. The root of all evil is the belief that we are separate – the belief in “us” versus “them.”
Through my experience of the world, I’ve come to learn that there is no “them.” There is nothing outside of my Self. When you rob from a neighbor, you steal from yourself. When you litter the road, you’re desecrating your body. When you kill an enemy, it is you that you maim.
As the hands of the clock move forward in their arbitrary dance, I can’t help but feel that things are changing. As more and more people learn to see their reflection in all expressions of creation, the collective mass of love and of peace grows closer and closer to a tipping point.
I wonder, will today be that day?
March 29, 2009 at 5:48 am
Great post Davey.
March 29, 2009 at 6:25 am
Amazing! Absolutely! Your thoughts are very mature.
Greetings from Poznan, Poland.
March 29, 2009 at 6:45 am
WOW!! That was really deep
My god,you should be a poet ot something =P
March 29, 2009 at 7:29 am
I’ve recently started reading your blog, so I don’t know much about your writing skills, but posts like this one always leave me speechless. Absolutely great! Greetings from Croatia
March 29, 2009 at 8:24 am
Dobrodošli, prijatelj. Odakle ste?
March 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Hvala, ovo je iznenadjenje…
Iz Osijeka sam
March 30, 2009 at 8:45 am
A meni baš nije iznenadjenje.
Ima nas mnogih preko svijetu… trebalo bih naći barem jedan od nas ovdje…
… čak i dva.
March 29, 2009 at 8:19 am
Not today, but soon….
March 29, 2009 at 9:02 am
I love your words but I cant but help look at your body and be all like… “you said something deep? Sorry I was distracted by your supple nipples papi!” Just sending dirty love and I don’t have 5 million but I would like to take you out on a date Davey?
P.S. I really am asking you out.
March 29, 2009 at 12:21 pm
A cold shower may help.
March 29, 2009 at 9:09 am
I think that with many things in this world, we are all “Waiting on the World to Change”, but what some people do not realize is that change starts within. You can’t change a nation if you first can’t change yourself, just as you can’t love another if you can’t first love yourself.
March 29, 2009 at 9:22 am
I love your visions of generations past – my elder relatives and their accomplishments against the odds mean so much to me too.
You are an amazingly inspired Davey Wavey today, and it’s contagious… x
March 29, 2009 at 9:40 am
Love the opening line. You definitely get a thumbs up on the visuals in this post. The message is very much an old, yet forgotten one among people. They tend to forget (or blantantly ignore) that we are all offspring from that woman from Africa millions of years ago.
March 29, 2009 at 9:54 am
holy crap! that was sooo deep. I thought the stuff I heard at church this morning was deep, but that was deeper.lol^_^ another inspiring post.
March 29, 2009 at 10:02 am
One of your better posts!
March 29, 2009 at 10:36 am
Davey Wavey, you are wise beyond words. Seriously, you have a beautiful way of writing and I love reading your posts. They always make me think.
March 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Good job. You da man!
March 29, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Technically, the original expression was that the love of money is the root of all evil, so it is supposed to point to greed, not specially printed paper. And greed does drive war, slavery, or theft.
March 29, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thanks. Your depth is amazing sometimes.
March 29, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Yet, he can’t pee in the shower.
March 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Awesome
March 29, 2009 at 1:32 pm
spoken like a 15 year old girl with a thesaurus…
poetry is like sooo deep I need to go smoke some clove cigarettes and think about my angst. totally.
March 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Beautiful. Yer deep Davey.
March 29, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I am my great grandfather my name is Oskar Wytallan. I come from Finland to America. The Americans can’t pronounce my name so I change it to honor my papa Karl. Now I am Oscar Carlson. I live in Montana. I have an enormous ranch.I meet a girl from the old country she is Katerina Irkila. We marry. She bears me a son named Arturi Fabiani Carlson
But as an American we call him Arthur Fabian Carlson. I am Arthur Carlson. I work for the railroad. I am very strong like my papa. I meet a rich English girl Lorena May Ballou she comes from an old aristocratic family. I don’t know if she will love me. My father was an immigrant to this great land and Lorena’s family has been here for 300 years. In England they were rich before hey came here. My brother is marrying Lorena’s sister. She is now my sister in law. Lorena is now my wife we have a son. His name is Norman Ray Carlson and He loves The prettiest girl in town. She is the preacher’s daughter little Susie Frances Gates. I am Norman Ray Carlson my wife is Frances Carlson We have three children the oldest Jaqueline Sue Carlson; the middle son John Arthur Carlson; and the baby Anthony Ray Carlson. I am Anthony Ray Carlson. I have Immigrated to Mexico. I am bisexual. My wife is Tita Angela Flores de Carlson. I hold in myself the accumulation of all the deeds of my forbears from Finland from England. I am the end of many great lines of families. For I haven’t and shan’t have children. But that is not sad. Beginning and Ending is the same. I am not the end. I am not the beginning. I am Anthony; I am Norman; I am Arthur; I am OsKar; I am Karl; I am.
May 25, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I would mlike to f**k your whole family!!!
March 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm
gr8 post-it begs the proclamation-United We Stand-Divided We Fall.We need each other-for without this we are all doomed.For way too long theres been this us vs them mentality-that needs to stop-what will it take?with the times we are in?again gr8 post.
March 29, 2009 at 2:51 pm
The mass of peace and love is everyday, especially for me…music is all I hear, from the moment I wake up until I go to bed, and in that music the peace and love exists…always.
Don’t know if I could handle seeing and thinking everything that was going on in your mind Davey…pretty heavy…
Ciao!
March 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Your post inspired me to go do something nice for someone. No reason, no return…just nice.
March 30, 2009 at 12:07 am
Brilliant. Eloquently written, precise, to the point. This is how I try to live my life every day. Only once everyone can see each other as oneself, or as one’s brother in the greater world of humanity will we reach a place where peace is possible. So while I agree with you that we need to see ourselves in everyone else, I think peace is possible not only if we see ourselves in everyone else, which can be difficult, but we see that everyone is a part of our family. Peace be upon you brother.
March 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Do you think we’re close? I read about increasing populations and spiraling poverty and I wonder if the masses of the world really have time or energy to give the tipping point any thought. I do feel that there are more people in the western world reconnecting with their spirituality, and with the universe, and I do feel that non-westernised cultures don’t have to follow such an active program of relearning spirituality as their cultures haven’t lost touch with the collective consciousness like the western culture did…but I’m afraid tipping point is going to come too late to pull us out of this downward spiral we’ve created for ourselves. I’m not sure its necessary. Empires come and empires fall…I hope I’m wrong
March 31, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Posts like this is why I LOVE YOU MAN!!!
April 1, 2009 at 7:23 am
may i ask you, how or what made you think this way?
what transpired the vastness of your thought?
May 4, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Beautiful post.
January 5, 2010 at 7:08 pm
This post put my a very optimistic mood. So much of the time I hear or think of negative things. Things about the hate that many hold toward others; things about the corruption in humanity; things about the declining health of the world. Perhaps it’s the media that plays into this and makes it seems worse than it is, or maybe it really is pretty bad out there? All I know is that this single post from you, a single person, completely changed my outlook, mood, and vision of the future. I thank you for that.
Now, if only we could get more people to think like this and come together as one loving world…