“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
This is a quote by Mother Teresa. Several of my past posts are based on her words of wisdom, faith, and concern for others. She often spoke about the connection among all human beings, and she spent most of her life helping others through the Missionaries of Charity which she founded. Much of the work of Missionaries of Charity involves helping people who live in poverty.
There are many ways that we belong to each other, from relationships between two people to the interconnection among every person in the world, for we all share this earth. There are connections between parents and their children, wives and husbands, teachers and their students, volunteers and the recipients of the volunteers’ assistance. All of these and other ways of relating, when approached from the heart, add meaning and specialness to people’s lives. We relate to others through our actions and the choices we make as well as by what we say. In our families, at our jobs, in doing volunteer work, in attending support groups, and in many additional ways we make our world a better place by doing our best to use and share the abilities we’ve been given by the Creator as we interact with others.
Each of us is unique and has been created for certain purposes. To know what those purposes are we need to try to discern the messages from our inner voice. Those messages come to us through the symbolism in dreams, synchronistic experiences, intuitive promptings, and unexpected happenings that seem to have symbolic meaning. It’s also important to recognize when we’ve made mistakes, to forgive ourselves, and to try again. By growing in consciousness in these ways, we are better able to discover our purpose, to remember that we all do belong to each other, and to experience the peace that comes from being the person we were created to be and doing those things we were created to do.