Happy New Year!

“It is my firm conviction that human nature
is essentially compassionate and gentle.”
~ Dalai Lama

“Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Imagine… the world will live as one.”
~ John Lennon

“In this world of relativity,
we are all relatives.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“Everything we think, do or say
changes this world in some way.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Dalai Lama

Dear Fellow Travelers on Spaceship Earth,

As together we welcome 2012,
a legendary new year,
let us resolve collectively, consciously and cooperatively
to help make this an auspicious and transformative year
for all Humankind and for all life on our precious planet.

The personal and planetary are intimately connected.
Just as dreamers ‘create’ their dreams,
together we are a ‘dream-team’,
dreaming our world into being; and,
consciously or unconsciously creating a ‘common dream’.

So, rather than just wishing that 2012 be a great year,
or passively awaiting fulfillment of promising prophesies,
let us help actualize our collective aspiration
for evolutionary transformation,
with peace on earth and goodwill to all.

A resolution can be both a wish or determination to do something,
AND an accomplishment and manifestation of that wish.
So, as a planetary family, let us NOW
resolve to resolve our pressing international and interpersonal problems –
problems that we cannot resolve alone.

To fulfill our deepest aspirations,
let us envision and see
our precious planet as we wish it to be,
and then – to manifest our vision –
let us compassionately contribute our own unique gifts
from our own unique perspectives,
in our own unique ways.

Here is a live video link of John Lennon’s singing “Imagine”,
his inspired and ever inspiring song.
May it encourage us to ever more manifest 
the immense beauty and compassion of
our true inner nature and limitless potentiality,
and thereby to transcend all obstacles as –

LOVE.

AND SO MAY IT BE!

Ron’s audio recitation of Happy New Year!