Healing the Universe is an Inside Job

"Healing the universe is an Inside Job" is a quote thatcommanded by your words, and it takes them
was printed at the bottom of an email send to meliterally. Thought, word, and deed - the word is the
by my good friend Tajuana. When I first read it, Icommand for action and it must be absolutely clear.
thought "Wow" what a great line - I'll have to use itThe universe does not interpret what we say. This is
somewhere. After thinking about it for a fewthe secret to why most people do not get what
minutes I now see that the line is in complete error.they want, because they have not made it perfectly
The universe is perfect the way it is. It is the matrixclear to the universe as to what it is that they want.
from which all forms of life interact with each otherThe mind commands the universe to create by using
to experience the physical life. It is a playground orwords, and it is the function of the universe to obey
buffet of experiences from which we choose.without second guessing. You may ask for a million
As a blank piece of paper would be the backgrounddollars because you think it will make you happy, but
from which we draw our lines, the universe as it is,the order you put in was for a million dollars - not for
simply represents the thoughts of its inhabitants. Tohappiness.
say that a piece of paper needs healing would beI like the line, and it sounds very meaningful and
incorrect. The line filled paper with its meaninglessspiritual, but it simply does not work, and it takes us
scribbles and useless information is simplyaway from the true issue, and that is that man is
representative of the mind that drew them. Thesickening his part of the universe and he needs to be
universe or at least a very tiny part of it may behealed, and that is an inside job.
filled with humanities insanity, but it is the human mindThe other issue is that most of us wouldn't want to
that has created it not the universe. Man creates allhear "Healing man is an inside job." We don't want to
that he/she experiences. The bathwater may becontemplate that we are ill or need healing. It is
dirty but it started out clean; what caused it? Youcommon place in our society to look at another and
may have nice clean fresh sheets on you bed, butsay it's you, not me!
that will change the more you lie in them. It is notOur culture and language are full of these nice
the universe that needs healing; it is humanity.sayings and we keep using them because it makes
To say that "healing the universe is an inside job"us feel good to say them and it moves the
simply is a nice way to say that "we" need healing.responsibility for change to something or someone
We are not separate from the universe; we areelse.
intimately connected to it. And the issue I have withOur language is probably our greatest obstacle in
using the terminology, or being nice, is that we takecreating or experiencing what we want. The words
away the responsibility for directing the healing wherewe choose separate us from each other, the
it is needed the most. In other words, if somethinguniverse, and all the things we desire.
or someone else needs healing, it is not us and anyThe first and greatest step to healing the universe is
energy given to the task of healing the universe willto heal the creator; heal man, and the universe will
not go where it will do the most good.automatically heal itself.
The bottom line here is that the universe is literally