People want to use spirituality just like they want to use God. Fix me. Heal me. Help me. Awaken me. Overcome my enemies. Help my side win. People use money, power, force, and other people, exerting influence to the same end.

There’s not a lot of difference between any of them. Some propel the world into more pain, others attempt to create more love, but they are still means to an end.

Basically, it comes down to (whatever whoever I have created as my golden idol) make my life better. Some include others in their vision of better, others are less inclusive. Some include their families. Some don’t even do that.

Whatever our tool of choice is, the other tools are wrong, or at the least, lacking. The people not using our tool, who don’t feel the way we feel, who aren’t as inclusive or exclusive just don’t know what we do.

When you see the hypocrisy of all tools your eyes are officially open. You don’t have much left to talk about, certainly not the normal chatter. That just drops away, but compassion for the game, for all the tools, amps up.

People do what they do and Jesus had it right when he said, Father forgive them, they know not what they do.’

It wasn’t about the ones who were crucifying him, although they were included. It was about the stories, the beliefs on autopilot, that determine our actions.

Sometimes the beliefs allow us to hang someone upside down and nail them to a cross. Sometimes they allow us to see all those who don’t think like we do as the ant-Christ, or demons, or unworthy of breath. Sometimes … well, you get it … atrocities great and small.

All for what?

So we can feel a bit better about ourselves, about our lives? So we can avoid looking within — looking without is so much quicker, so much easier? So we can get what we want. The hell with what anyone else wants or needs.

We all look through different lenses.

What I want and what you want mostly likely aren’t the same. Wanting is the commonality, wanting something we don’t have and trying to figure out how to manipulate the system to change that. That’s another thing that falls away when we see what’s going on, wanting.

Wanting is how we maintain the game. Wanting change. Wanting life to stay the same. Wanting to impose our will on life. And round and round the hamster wheel goes.

Oy vey. Aren’t we a fascinating experiment?!

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