...a little Good Will emerges....

Greetings everyone

Well here we stand again at another point of transition on planet earth.  

Specifically I'm speaking about the twists and turns of the seasons...June is fast approaching,  bringing winter to the southern hemisphere and summer to the northern.  Once more we humans get to find ways to adapt to our external climates.

What about internally though - how are we weathering the seasons within us at this time in our existence?  How are we manifesting in the world?  For those who are willing ... some thoughts for hearty contemplation:

1) How do you find you're personally 'doing' with this concept of having Good Will for 'self' and 'others'? 

2) and how about globally, how does it feel we're going 'collectively' as the human race, as souls on a journey, as caretakers of the earth?

In 1974 Sam Keen spoke with Roberto Assagioli and during that meeting the subject of Good Will arose.

Sam Keen: 

Good will seems to belong more to religion than psychotherapy, Can’t the will be healthy without being good?

Roberto Assagioli: No. A person is always in a social context; he is not an isolated unit. So the more conflict there is, the more energy is wasted. If we are to have any deep peace it depends upon the harmonization of wlls. Self-centredness is deeply destructive to the cooperation without which a person cannot live a full life in community. Why should we consider good will an expendable virtue, a matter only for the religious? I can go even a step further. This same principle applies to an individual’s relation to nature and the universe. No person can take an arrogant stand and consider himself unrelated to the universe. Like it or not, man is a part of the universal will and he must somehow tune in and willingly participate in the rhythms of universal life. The harmonization and unification of the individual and the universal will – the Chinese identification with the Tao, the Stoic acceptance of destiny, or the Christian will of God – is one of the highest human goals, even if it is seldom realized.

So here we are - 38 years on - literally in a new millennia!  And yet, I'd suggest, as a species at least, we are still grappling with the same concept.  So in the spirit of 'picking up the proverbial ball' that Roberto has offered us in his words and ideas.

"How can we actively manifest Good Will in ourselves - and the world?"

more to come...