I have found myself in times of being so involved with others trying to make their point about various issues that come up or that have little or no spiritual value they have found themselves, that I loose my focus on what I’m doing in my life and what I’m attempting to accomplish. While others may attempt to control the environment and the situations they encounter in themselves, their circumstances and the people in their life.
At times we have to step away from the darkness that others have let permeate their spiritual aura and nourish our own so we can be an effective force for ourselves and as a result for others as well. It may be that I myself let other dark forces dampen my spirits. Regardless of how and from what source these shadows originate, they are a calling to find my inner connection before I enter into outer communication. We can often find ourselves defending others and ourselves because of the onslaught of dark forces around us.
Good insight Steve- I particularly like that you take some responsibility by acknowledging your involvement and questioning if the result of your environment could be from your own actions. I would add that not only do we defend others as you have suggested above but we easily blame others while seeming unaware that it is our own attitudes and energy responsible for of our misery. A lot of it, I think, comes from taking up arms over propaganda. Like fretting about politicians and their dress codes when instead there is much nectar to be drawn from the immediate reality before us.
Namaste~
