The Faux Pas Press #195: How to Feed Thousands with Five Loaves

Too calm to cavort and gesture for result. We are often found laughing in senseless decadence. Too swollen in our bellies to see the residual of suffering that our actions cause. We must be the change that we want to see. And how do we accomplish that? Not so sure that without including bigger missions into our lives we would ever feed anyone but ourselves. The gifts that we suppose to curse us. We can blame others for doing the bidding of higher intelligence; we cannot blame others for our lot in life. (It is easy to bite off more than we can chew, easy to find the flaws in others before giving them the benefit of the doubt. Feeding the thousands does not resonate when we ought to be disciplined and say ‘no’. Focus on the Hocus Pocus of saying ‘no’ when you need to. And saying it however you have to.)

The magik of feeding others in miraculous ways, I assume, must come from a genuine love for others. How can we love others unless we love ourselves? Seems simple enough but loving ourselves sometimes takes a shit-load of energy and practice. Loving our True Self comes down to discipline. Doing what you need to do when you need to do it and saying 'no' to everything else: addiction, entertainment, escape, loathing, day-dreaming about the future, regretting the past, jerking ourselves off intellectually, spiritually, and surely, physically.

So many times I’ve been made to feel the victim. Sounds ridiculous and weak to say anything to the contrary, but taking responsibility for our lives is the most important thing that we can do to feed the thousands. Our goals, so filled with self, we pretend that there are no miracles. Pretend that from the beginning there will not be enough. Keys to abundance lie in planning those intentions for doing good for the five thousand. Sucks to hear at first. You won’t have abundance if your life is just for the Mind Boy you. Expand beyond the creations of your own ego and you will find something else entirely.