I hope you are thriving and finding meaning and purpose, even as the world changes and old structures collapse around you. Whether you consider climate change, politics, culture, or social issues, we live under intense pressure, and we will all be tested in one way or another.
To resist the tides of chaos and conflicts, we need to strengthen our inner center of identity, our ability to be strong, loving observers of the challenges to our sanity. We need to (re)define our core values, muster our courage to be a voice of heartfelt reason, and not drown in the polarities that compete for our allegiances.
The question is, how can we maintain our position as a voice for synthesis and balance, even though strong forces everywhere try to push us into their camp? Psychosynthesis speaks of the unification between love and will, and let me quote Roberto Assagioli from the Act of Will:
"One of the principal causes of today's disorders is the lack of love on the part of those who have will and the lack of will in those who are good and loving. This points unmistakably to the urgent need for the integration, the unification, of love with will."
This call for a synthesis of love and will is one of the most prominent needs in the current situation. But what does it mean? It could be a challenge to all of us to be more courageous and dare to speak with a clear voice, to take action against what we perceive as polarising and destructive to our core human values - this is the will part.
What matters is that we don't forget the humanity of the people we disagree with, that we also remember to see them as souls with personalities, and that even though we don't agree with their actions and even oppose them, we consider their needs and well-being. In other words, it is possible to have strong disagreements, even be in conflict with someone, and still maintain an open heart.
This is the challenge: when unifying love and will, we often polarize and become destructive in our fight for the "good," because we forget the heart, or we become pushovers with no spine and allow the destructive forces to seize the day. Remember that the end never justifies the means; the means always reveal the goal.