I didn’t know what to call this blog so in the end I opted for the title it is now, because I really think someone would interperate it differently everytime they read it.

The relationship between volunteering and willingness.
Through willingness to volunteer you uplift your consciousness. Most if not all organisations have a vision, that tends to be their mission statement.

In some ways, talking about how it could be a doorway to becoming a bigger person than who you are.

What a vision means is, say everybody has desires. We all have desires, it’s part of human nature. Desire is an incremental way of enhancing our life. This desire is an emotion that first starts off as a thought; thoughts then manifest into reality if you have the desire and belief.

Today you desire a home, tomorrow you desire a car, desire a new phone, tomorrow, you desire something else.

These are incremental ways of arranging and rearranging our lives which are needed to do a few things in our lives.

Let’s say you say, “It is my vision to….,” what you’re saying is, I have a larger desire which is not about just incremental improvement of my life. Desire is about me, always.

Vision is an all-inclusive process.

So this itself is a phenomenal thing, if people instead of having desires, if they have a vision. Vision is always all-inclusive.

Desire is personal. Desire leads to incremental changes and improvements.

Vision can transform the whole situation.

So, about willingness, to be a volunteer, a volunteer means somebody who is doing something willingly, right?

There’s no other compulsion. There are no financial compulsions. There are no social compulsions. But it could be because it fulfills your emotional needs, to be valued, respected, achievement, part of a bigger thing. You want to do something willingly to fulfill these emotional needs.

So when you’re a willing participant right now, you’re a volunteer.

So you are reading this willingly.

You are doing something willingly, it is the fundamental of your joy because it makes you feel good.

However simple or stupid or idiotic activity it is,

“I am doing something willingly,” makes a world of difference.

The difference between heaven and hell is just this.

You are doing something willingly, that’s your heaven. You are doing something unwillingly, that’s your hell.

We have already taken on attitudes about what we like and what we don’t like.

I like this person, I don’t like this person. Now with this person, I will do things willingly. With that person, I will do things unwillingly.

This may be two people, two aspects of life, two communities, two nations, two..etc..

This I will do willingly, this I do unwillingly.

This means, I have decided in my mind, this is good, this is bad. When we hear, even on national news channels, good guys and bad guys .. it just..

Once you have this kind of thinking, you are going to be disastrous to the planet. It’s just a question of time.The moment you decide this is a good person, this is a bad person, this has gone deep into society.

There are no good people and bad people.
Everybody is oscillating between the two. We all have our own perceptions of good and bad. This is built upon past experiences, morals, beliefs, environments. If you create a very pleasant wonderful atmosphere, everybody behaves wonderfully. If you create an unpleasant atmosphere, a whole lot of people act nasty. Only if they have the same values, morals, beliefs and experience; perception.

There are joyful people and miserable people, but there are no good people and bad people. The moment we think we are good, we are entitled to destroy the bad,
Oh, we’ve been destroying a lot of people for a long time, it is time to stop that.

Because..

human beings are in different levels of experience and understanding. A variety of people.

Anybody who’s not like you is obviously bad?

Those who are not like me must be bad people?

Because the basis of goodness and what you think is goodness is decided by you.

No, you have no business to do that.

Willing means this.

I’m just willing. I’m a hundred percent yes to life. I am not yes to this one, no to that one.

No, I am just yes and yes to life.

If you are a hundred percent yes to life, you are a volunteer. You have become a willing life volunteer.

“How do you operate with all these people, all kinds of horrible questions they’re asking, they’re doing this, they’re doing that?’

“My life is not about them. It’s about me”

“It’s about how I am. This is about me.”

“It doesn’t matter how they are, that’s their choice.”

“But how I am is my choice.”

“This is my way. How I experience life.”

“Because I am the only one who is experiencing this through my thoughts, feelings, emotions and actions.”

“No matter what they do I cannot control their thoughts, feelings, emotions and actions, but I can control how I react.”

Because I have not given that freedom to anybody that somebody can affect my mood,my feelings my emotions or actions, therefore;

Nobody can make me angry,
Nobody can make me happy,
Nobody can make me unhappy.

Because if somebody else can decide what can happen with you.

Isn’t this the ultimate slavery?

Should someone else decide what makes you angry, happy, unhappy within yourself?

No.

What happens around you of course, so many people deciding, so many external factors you cannot decide or control.

But what happens within me must be my making, my thoughts, feelings, emotions that lead to action and that is then how I experience an event, situation, ultimately life

So people decide on a daily basis,

“I can’t work with this person, she is so horrible, I can’t do it.”

In this world this is the sort of people who exist. Like this, like that, this is the kind of people there are.

But if you want to work with ideal people, you must go to heaven and today. But if you think, what you’re doing is very significant, you must learn to work with all these challenging people.

This is how the world is.

If you think what you’re doing is very significant, you learn to work with all kinds of people. You will see, horrible people will do wonderful things.

But if you want to work with ideal people, you won’t find any.

They’re all kinds of …people, but if you are willing, that you are not yes and no, yes to one, no to another, you’re simply one big yes, you will find a way.

A Better Way.

But this takes control, mindfulness and awareness and these have to be taught, learnt and practiced. I have only recently been doing this and I’m in my late forties! If this was taught in schools from nursery all the way to secondary school I truly believe society would be better as would individuals be too.