“I have no special talents.”
I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Recently at public events I find myself asking a question or making a comment with great emotion and passion. It is like something takes over my body and mind. People really like my question or comments or really do not like them. What is going on? I was taught in my spiritual training in Spiritual Exercise to discern to seek what leaves you in peace and avoid that what leaves you upset. Yet on the other hand I was trained to allow the spirit speak thru you, just to let go and let God. If I could only control or condition the strong feelings that come out to me I would be okay.

For example, today I attended a wonderful reading of Project Unspeakable, a work that connects the assassination of John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. It was excellent and authentic. There was an hearsay quote at the beginning that excused President Obama for everything wrong that is going on now with unspeakable by saying he was not doing anything out of fear. I thought that remark was out of place but such a minor scar on an excellent production. However, the first person to ask a question asked that these hearsay remarks be repeated, excusing President Obama, from anything like drones, new nuclear weapons etc. I found my hand going up and speaking very passionately how the President was intelligent and knew what he was doing with killer drones, deporting more persons than any president in history of USA and on and on. I found it hard to stop as I was speaking by channeling words from an unknown source.

My efforts to slow down, do more reading, reflection and responding are failing, at least for today. Now if I could only learn to speak passionately yet peacefully.

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