A Few Thoughts on Paris, and Terror in General

Thinking about Paris and my thoughts on it as a spiritual writer. It's hard (and intimidating) to make comment on political, emotional, fierce situations. I'm a hippy mama with a deep set belief in 'something more', in energetic connection, in life as a facade for something greater. It's just what's in my heart and I write about it. Then shit happens in the real world and mostly I say nothing. I do however believe that spirituality is intimately linked to any such tragedy. Spirituality, is, for me, everything. Every event is an opportunity to grow and learn as individuals, as a species. It is clear to me that we are all being challenged personally, in our little environments and cross culturally. I believe we are being challenged to move away from violence, fear and negative reaction and to move into our hearts, into love. In the face of terror and barbarity love seems a soft option. It's the hardest thing to do. For that reason I believe that it is possibly the worthiest. Love has always been my answer. On a personal level it has changed everything for me, many times and in powerful ways. It has ploughed down tragedy and chaos in my life and helped me move forward. It has created beauty from ugliness, hope from despair, forgiveness from fear. If you think you can set aside your fear, your anger, your take on politics or religion or those who are 'other' and instead just instigate a feeling of love then you as an individual can start to change your world. And if you can change your world, then maybe, just maybe, as a collective we can all change the actual world. Putting aside the art of terror, the art of war and instead create a world that reacts from, evokes and provokes the art of love. Love, Alice xx