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Hello, everyone. It's Jeff. Welcome to another daily Jimm Thursday, January 25th, 2024. It is the uh uh Thursday. And so it's going to be the last day of the week that I record. And today I wanted to talk about this new phrase that came into my mind, the war between love and peace. Do I fully know what it means? Not yet. But I wanted to reflect a little more on it because it came to my mind and I thought that that might be it that so often it seems that we have this battle between, do we want to be in love or do we want to be at peace? And when I look at a lot of the political leaders and civil and cultural leaders that we have out there now, I think most are lobbying for fighting for us to be at peace with ourselves, with each other. And I don't know how many are fighting for us to be in love with ourselves and with each other. And so really trying to reflect on that a little more, I mean, Gandhi, it seemed like they were fighting a little more to be in love. Um ML as well. Some nowadays who that's running for the president of the United States really wants uh Democrats and Republicans to love each other and to come closer and to see the commonalities that we have and to dissolve some of the political party ID. Uh uh uh mm maybe not. I affiliation um.
Kind of strong identity, this exclusive, mutually exclusive identities, um and actually get us to come together and see our common humanity, even just our common Americanness if we don't want to go all the way to the next level of humanity. But how many leaders on a global scale are talking about bringing humans together so that we see each other as humans? Now? Maybe some do, maybe some spiritual leaders talk about this and maybe some um some people who write books, talk about this too. But, you know, sometimes when I've heard people talk about it, sometimes in the, maybe the new age spirituality space or some of this, it's like coming together love almost like this. I think mlk called it an anemic love. It's this love without strength. Um It's love without self love, kind of love for the other but not love for ourselves. And how do we, how do we get to the point where we want to love ourselves and we want to love other people? Maybe we do. I don't know, maybe, maybe it's more widespread than I believe. But Um.
I think I've been sitting and waiting for people to step up into this leadership vacuum in almost a way. Uh especially leadership towards love. I think even the UN, the UN doesn't talk about, I mean, it's the United Nations and yet its main focus is peacekeeping. It's not about uniting the nations. It's about making sure that people don't kill each other. What if the United Nations were about uniting the nations? How can we further unite the nations so that it is a deeper um brotherhood, a sisterhood, a deeper relationship amongst the humans that are members that are citizens, what not of the United Nations.
Even the United States, we call it the United States, not the peaceful States of America. It's the United States of America. And so how can we as a nation try to unite even more? How can we try to bring whites and blacks and Latinos and all these various groups that we come up with? How do we try to bring these groups together? How do we try to bring men and women together and other, again, other categories in that space? How do we try to bring different generations together. How do we basically just try to unite people and bring people closer together? Um, and I, I guess I've just been waiting for somebody else to jump into that vacuum and I guess maybe scared to be the one to lead the way.
I think I've been looking for friends or family or colleagues or political leaders or somebody to do it. And maybe I could coach them on the side, but they'd be the one that would be up front and center. Whereas I could kind of stay in the shadows um out of fear mostly. But what would it look like if instead of trying to get other people to lead the way that I let myself lead the way and just lead and go without.
Having to have somebody walk next to me or even walk in front of me. Maybe not even walk that close behind me. Maybe I just go and there are people 1020 100 ft behind me. Maybe. Sometimes people are so far behind me. I can't even see them, but just by going, I am inspiring other people just by taking that leap and pushing in that direction. I inspire others. Who knows that scares the hell out of me, but who's doing it? I, I just, I just don't see that many figures who are really pushing hard and fighting hard and saying no matter what happens, I'm still going to love you and care about you and whether you believe it or not, I'm still gonna love you. Um I'm always gonna think you're a good person and I'm always going to think I'm a good person no matter what happens, that unconditional self worth, unconditional positive regard. I think Carl Jung called it maybe Carl Rogers, perhaps Carl Rogers.
Anyways, I'm losing track of my citations. But um, yeah, maybe there's something about if we want other people to go in a certain direction, maybe we have to go first and maybe that means going in, in hoping that someday those people will go in that direction. But uh just leading the way, not knowing if anyone's going to follow.
So that kind of ended in a different way. But uh that's how it goes with these more stream of conscious uh reflections. So hope you all have a weekend that you want to have and that uh we come back together next week, take care.
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