Are human beings simply violent? As the top predator, are we by nature aggressive and prone to war-like thinking and behavior? Among other species we have predator and prey. We humans have conqueror and enemy. Looking at our history, is it erroneous to believe we can ever create, much less live, a peaceful existence?
We are a part of everything and everything is a part of us in the great big dream that we call Life. The truth is that the COVID-19 virus is as much a part of us as is the air we breathe. Did our collective consciousness of fear and hatred bring it into being? Was it our collective contempt for so much of the life around us, which nurtured it and allowed it to gain a stranglehold over us? Is it “instant Karma” in action?
It is heard so often in the news that we must fight this monster virus; that we must beat it and we must win because it is our enemy. Phrases that imply we are fighting a war and waging a war against this microscopic enemy are heard over and over again. How can this militant approach do anything but add more fuel to its raging spread?
Coronavirus has become a major part of our most recent lives. It is what is. Will we continue to resist, fight, struggle, and rail against the climbing death toll and the ensuing difficulties it has created? Or will we accept its presence, but turn our gaze to a higher vision of love, peace, and kindness? Viruses, like evil, thrive only in darkness and the absence of light. The only way to diminish its power is not to resist it; but to shine the light of goodness. Light the candle of your neighbor so that he may light that of another, and so on. When there is enough light in the world, COVID-19 will disappear.
