SHAUMBRA HEARTBEAT
FIERCE LOVE
By Jean Tinder
How can I love people I don’t like?
Do I really believe in Love 2.0? Whatever I believe must be practical and applicable to everyday life, because all our nice concepts and theories are useless if I can’t embody them in the messy trenches of a world in reboot. For me, a fierce commitment to love is more urgent than ever. But how do you love the unlovable?
How can I find goodness in those who seem bad?
Believing in human goodness is easy in theory. We can find inspiring examples of kindness and compassion all around the world. It’s also fairly simple to see goodness in those around us, even in the strangers passing by. The real challenge lies somewhere between the abstract and adjacent. How can I see the goodness in people who appear heartless, greedy, power-hungry, and indifferent to the suffering they cause? How can I find light in the darkness?
These enigmas have been challenging me lately, and the resolutions haven’t come easy. My body gets tense, my heart starts pounding, and my mind starts screaming. But the thing is, I can’t just excuse myself by saying, “It’s too hard” or “I don’t know how.” If I choose a belief, it must apply universally, not just when it’s easy. If I believe in the goodness of humanity, I must find it in everyone, even the most difficult individuals and even when it feels impossible.
With all the news stories going on, I’ve had a few too many moments of feeling overwhelmed by heaviness, dread, and anger – caught up in emotional turmoil over situations that really aren’t even mine to carry. Indeed, watching the power games of others can be infuriating, no doubt because they mirror parts of myself that did the same in other lifetimes. But sinking into anger, indignation or fear feels terrible, and clearly, I can’t change others to meet my expectations, so… what to do?
I asked my Self for guidance on how to maintain balance in the current chaos. The answer came as a vision of Plato’s cave, a place of shadows, monsters, illusions, and fear, controlled by unseen puppeteers.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a metaphor for human perception and knowledge. In the story, prisoners are chained inside a dark cave, facing a wall, unable to see the world outside. Behind them, a fire casts shadows of objects onto the wall, and the prisoners mistake these shadows for reality. If a prisoner were freed and exposed to the outside world, they would initially struggle to comprehend the true forms of objects, as they had only ever known their shadowy representations. The allegory illustrates how people can live in ignorance, mistaking illusions for truth, and highlights the transformative journey of enlightenment, where one moves from the shadows of false beliefs to the clarity of understanding and truth (source).
Pondering this image, the wisdom dawned: shadows can only exist in darkness. With enough light, they simply disappear, regardless of where the light comes from.
Sure, escaping the cave into the sunlight of enlightenment would be great, but what if the ‘prisoners’ knew they already possessed a light source within? What if nobody needs to be rescued or challenged or changed because all this Earth-cave really needs is more light?
While I apparently still have aspects that want to pick up the sword and fight against all the crap in the world, my Master self knows that the demons are really only shadows. And fighting won’t change them any more than it will change the stone wall upon which they dance.
In other words, when the world feels chaotic and full of pain, when the news is dominated by “monsters,” when I feel at a loss, the solution is simple: shine, because light is all that’s needed. And if something still scares me? I whisper to myself, “More light. More light. More light.”
The last thing this world needs is a frightened, frustrated wannabe Master. I don’t need to battle the creepy monsters or the scary shadows they cast. I just need to shine brightly enough for me to see the true reality – the goodness – that I know is already there. The shadows may be convincingly real, but I refuse to be fooled. So, I relax, breathe deeply, and let my body know she’s safe again – and again and again. And again. I remind myself that the people making headlines aren’t inherently evil; they’re just busy figuring out how energy works, same as we did. The difference is that their games are playing out in plain sight.
So, when my stomach tightens and fear creeps in, when my mind starts raging against the darkness, I whisper again to myself, more fiercely this time, “More light, honey. More light. More light!” And you know what? As I do this, the hidden sparks of goodness start becoming visible, and love swells naturally.
Now, ‘fierce love’ doesn’t mean forcing it on others. Love 2.0 isn’t even about loving other people. It’s about a fierce inner commitment to be love, no matter what. It’s a refusal to give in to stress, fear, and dread, regardless of what’s happening in the world. That way, when parts of myself still react with those emotions, it just tells me there are some aspects that need to come home.
A Master simply doesn’t live in anxiety and fear. So, with fierce determination, I choose to shine, to love, to see the goodness within every soul on this planet. It’s there, whether I find a way to perceive it or whether I give in to the shadows. Perception creates reality, and my perception is always my choice. If I label someone a tyrant or sociopath or some other “other,” I’m obscuring their innate goodness from my own view and believing the scary shadows, which doesn’t free me from the cave. So, again, I fiercely return to love by reminding myself, “Light, light, more light.”
If I can’t see their goodness, who will? This is the love that Yeshua taught.
A few days ago, I had the bittersweet experience of watching the funeral service for President Jimmy Carter, a man of integrity and compassion. One of the contributions was a reading of Yeshua’s “Sermon on the Mount.” I hadn’t heard it for decades, but in this modern era, it took on a new poignancy for me:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Love. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, where it gives light to all who are in the house. *
The people immersed in power games and casting shadows are experts at negativity; it’s their playground. But when we illuminate their goodness and radiate love anyway, well, that’s uncharted territory.
Fierce love is not about excusing other people’s actions. It is about choosing the perceptions that serve me as a Master on Earth. And this Master is determined to choose love, again and again and again.
* Matthew 5:3-14, NIV, with a small amount of literary license
Thank you Jean.
I appreciate your openness and clarity.
Hi dear Jean spot on and appreciate the clarity.greetings
Spot on❤️ Watching the power games has been a little rough in the US. Adamah said we were Living Light…I now see myself as Living Love and all I can really do is shine with everything I’ve got. Not to change anyone…but maybe…just maybe someone will feel their own light and say…no more.
Yes, BE living light, BE living Love.
Thank you for this perspective! ❤️
I’ll try to implement it right away today.
Thank you Jean. Another very inspiring article. The simple and practical examples you relate are precious as a source of inspiration. 💖
Incredible as always, Master Jean. I’d love to collaborate with you, as you’ve provided such a brilliant demonstration of what so many are experiencing.
There is no more light or less light. The search for goodness in people is something we Shaumbra know well, yet it stems from an attempt to force knowing through the lens of duality—goodness, badness, more light, less light. Like all filters, duality serves consciousness faithfully and is incredibly useful—until it no longer is.
Thank you for embodying the master’s perspective, one rooted in consciousness and energy. They’re simply learning—or what we call experiencing—just as we did. The only difference? They’re doing it in plain sight. You’re absolutely correct.
One could argue that we are demonstrating Human 2.0 in plain sight (I certainly do), which is why Crimson Circle is so transformative. It doesn’t shy away or hide itself—it lays everything bare for the benefit of all. There is no goodness because there is no badness. From the Human 1.0 perspective, linearity creates the illusion of progression and process. Yet, as we know, the human filter—duality—was never really the story to begin with.
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Hi 🙂 I found a lot from my existence in it.
When such things happen or come to me, I try to sense their matching partners in me (quantum entanglement). Nothing is coincidence in this life. Am I taking unnecessary facts on me (which I couldn’t get over) or are they appearing in my perception spectrum to show me smtg? Usually both of them 🙂
Your beautiful output reminded me smtg.
“You’re a hero if you kill a cockroach, but a villain if you kill a butterfly. Morality has aesthetic standards.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the Lebanese-American philosopher.
Accepting everything as it is is the real wisdom for me. If I put more light on one side of the seesaw, shadows keep calling their friends to weigh more on the other side 🙂 In my case it was like this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Jean. Your article is very helpful.
El Amor de Yeshua siempre presente, gracias Jean
I had always seen the Beatitudes as something beautiful. Today, reading your article, I perceived something else in them: love 2.0 was there. Thank you.
very nice , love hearing you.
Dear Jean,
Again and again you shine your light, illuminating again and again my ‘cave’, enhancing my own light, shining. Thank you so much for all the pearls of humanness and wisdom, month after month, year after year.
Pondering the metaphor of the shadows on the wall of the cave I felt another AEND to the story, helping me seeing their beauty. As everything I perceive exists through my light and energy, the shadows are just communicating to me their joy of I EXIST. Their dancing is my dance.
I have to take a good deep, deep breath now: there’s no need for me to change these shadows at all. If I shine my light onto my self the shadows seem to suddenly start communicating their true grandness’ regardless of their appearance cast by the fire of mass consciousness – my old perception.
I recognize how part of me still wishes to see the world change to my liking. But I’m beginning to grasp, that I chose to be here in this world as it is played out and indeed just change my own perception or my focus if you will, acknowledging the grandness in all of (this) creation.
Like you illustrated I simply have to shine my light onto myself. Here it is available also in mass consciousness as a potential. Nothing to work on. What a lightness!
Yes, it’s all incredible as it is, because it always was. Good to see you master, thank you for being.
Beautiful! 💖
Thank you for this perspective dear Jean! It reminds me of the Christian principles. Love consciousness ultimately allows all other energies like healing, abundance, joy, peace, harmony and contentment of the soul to flow in when we shine our light on it! Practicing and being love consistently in the Now is the greatest challenge! One love 💗
Mil gracias 💟
Bom texto e boa prespetiva filosófica.
De facto Agradeço de Coração ao Adamus e C.C. todas as Palavras Ditas Escritas e Comentadas pois através de tantas narrativas quase dizendo sempre o mesmo Conseguimos Percepcionar a Verdade contida nelas e Permitir o Self a Luz e Aí Sim Tudo Muda não Há mais dúvidas a panorâmica Muda e para lá da Compaixão só consigo mesmo rir “dos Malucos ” que permanecem na Prisão!
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