Love is the only thing that activates our intelligence and our creativity, which purifies and liberates us. Have you every looked at railroad tracks? What did you notice about them? Ok. How far apart are they? They’re 143.5 centimeters, or 4 feet 81/2 inches apart. Why this measurement?   When they built the first train carriages they used the same tools as they had for building horse drawn carriages. And why the distance between the wheels on carriages?   Because that was the width of the old roads along which the carriages had to travel. Who decided that the roads should be that width? It was the Romans who decided to build their roads that width. They were the first great road builders. Their war chariots were pulled by two horses, and when placed side by side, the horses they used took up 143.5 centimeters.
So the distance between the tracks used by our state-of-the-art high-speed trains, was decided by the Romans. It never has occurred to them to change the width. This even affects the building of the space shuttles. Engineers thought the fuel tanks should be wider, but the tanks were built in Utah and had to be transported by train to the Space Center in Florida, and the tunnels couldn’t take anything wider.
What does this story have to do with love and relationship and you?
Sometimes we believe everything must stay the same; following the same track just because it’s the way we’ve always done it. But most the time life has gone on without us. And we stay stuck. When the truth is that we are merely suffering , because instead of accepting loves strength, we diminish it so that it fits the world in which we think we live. We are trapped within what we think we’ve learned and know. To be truly free and again be the creator of our lives we have to forget what we know.
Accumulated knowledge is useful when it comes to cooking or living within your means or wrapping up warm in winter or respecting certain limits or knowing when to catch the bus you need We could spend the rest of our lives defending our unwillingness to shift (because of fear or laziness)
How do you know when change is needed? Follow the signs/omens. We just have to look around with open, willing eyes in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.
Have any of you studied archery?   The best archery teachers say that no shot can ever be repeated, and there is no point trying to learn from good or bad shots. What works is repeating it hundreds and thousands of times, until you have freed yourself from the idea of hitting the target, and have ourselves become the arrow, the bow, the target. At that point the energy of God guides our movements and we release the arrow not when we want to, but when we intuit that the moment has come. WE LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE. We become the true change agents for our planet.
