This is the form taken by destruction.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Do our best...

That's all any of us can do.

This whole subject gets really convoluted...what does it mean to "be" and what does it mean to "do"?

It's very subjective. To me, you DO a lot, GTRO.

I feel a strong sense of deja vu, as this is a subject that has caused me to break ranks with many "spiritual" groups to which I've belonged over the years.

I can't speak for FWWM, but when I read what he wrote, I immediately resonated. Over the decades I've met quite a few "lightworkers" who sought to "rise above" the suffering and troubles of the world...their own and others'.

They didn't want to know about anyone's suffering (and, if they did, they'd chalk it up to the people drawing the suffering to themselves and thus it's their fault). They focused on raising their vibration and just BEING. And while I was able to respect their choice to focus on their own vibration and not take a more active role in the world in a practical, down-to-earth way as I choose to do, they were very critical of people like me who choose to be activists and seek to DO things more than others to take positive action toward creating the world we choose to experience.

Honestly, I've always perceived it as very condescending. That's not what has happened here, but I'm sharing my prior experience which causes me to react to this subject the way I do.

I'm probably not explaining this well, but while I completely get the "being" and "doing" thing as BTTB described...and truly feel both ways of being in this world are of value...when someone says, "Just BE. No one needs to do anything," I have an instant negative reaction, as though people like me are being judged.

"Silly you, don't you know you don't need to DO anything? The world is perfect as it is, every thing is in divine order, it's all meant to be, yada, yada...insert platitude here."

I recognize that as my problem, not anyone else's.

I also realize that when some of us say, "We must DO something," that call to action can trigger feelings of helplessness or inadequacy in others, even though that is certainly not the intention.

Again, what the "do something" even means is very individual.

I need to make peace with this subject so I don't trigger this conversation over and over again throughout my life and upset others in the process.