(Continued from Part 1.)
Holding that we can make a difference was unthinkable in the world of Werner’s days.
“That you make a difference, that the rules for living successfully are now based on you-and-me, that we can live in a context of the world working for everyone, is literally unthinkable.
“It is beyond our present paradigm, outside the scope and limits of the condition in which we have lived. You have to dare to think the unthinkable, dare to do more than dream, dare to be the architect of your own world.” (1)
You-and-me? What is that? I actually vividly remember him describing what it was in 1980:
“Sometime around now – it may have happened five years ago or fifty years ago – … the rules for living successfully on this planet shifted.
“We can no longer hope to live meaningful, purposeful lives using the rules of a you-or-me world. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to those who will look that in order to live successfully on this planet, we must discover and live by the rules of you-and-me.” (2)
You and I want our lives to make a difference and the difference we’re making at this moment is we’re bringing peace to our world. The difference is made by those who are teaching non-violent communication. The difference is made by those who are adopting the orphans of war. The difference is made by those who are rehabilitating child soldiers, rescuing children from white slavery, fighting corruption in government, etc.
The difference is made by lightworkers who hold the space for peace and radiate love and light out into the world. It’s made by writers, parents, actors, doctors, nurses, pilots, and department-store clerks. It’s made by all of us who take up the principles of a you-and-me world.
What principles are they?
(1) Loving our neighbors as ourselves.
(2) Seeing all as One.
(3) Serving the collective as we serve our family and friends.
(4) Detaching from all that doesn’t serve the Divine Plan.
(5) Devoting ourselves to all that does.
Whether some are happy about it or not, we’re heading quickly towards a world that works for all and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. But there’s everything we can do to facilitate it and speed its arrival.
Since Werner is the architect of the vision I use, let me allow him the last word. These words may as well have been emblazoned on my heart for the impact they had on me when I first heard them:
“We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our love for the world what our lives are really about.
“Each of us now has the opportunity, the privilege, to make a difference in creating a world that works for all of us. It will require courage, audacity, and heart.
“It is much more radical than a revolution – it is the beginning of a transformation in the quality of life on our planet. You have the power to fire the shot heard ‘round the world.” (3)
Now, here we are, standing on the doorstep of a world at peace, brought to us in largest measure by the Company of Heaven – Airborne Division (I’d give my eye teeth for a fly-by).
The curtain is rising and the play of compassion, abundance, and peace may now begin.
Join us in creating Peace on Earth by Feb. 14, 2015.
Footnotes
(1) “Each of us has the opportunity, the privilege, to make a difference in creating a world that works for all of us.” (Werner Erhard, A World That Works, 1980, cited at https://www.worldthatworks.org/.)
“Transformation does not negate what has gone before it; rather, it fulfills it. Creating the context of a world that works for everyone is not just another step forward in human history; it is the context out of which our history will begin to make sense.” (Werner Erhard – A Shot Heard Round the World: A World that Works for Everyone at https://www.scribd.com/doc/143329822/Werner-Erhard-A-Shot-Heard-Round-the-World-A-World-that-Works-for-Everyone
See also Werner Erhard, The Hunger Project: The End of Starvation. Creating an Idea Whose Time has Come. San Francisco: Hunger Project, n.d., p. 3.
(2) Werner at the Werner Event, c1980.
(3) Werner in the Graduate Review, February 1980.