2015.11.21 Opening our heart to the refugees

[Jade]

I don't think you read too much into it at all, Jeremy. I think you are exactly right that people want to protect their "homes", their "status quo", and abhor the idea of changing what they love. I think on a shallower level, people also want to protect their "stuff", which they see as an extension of their identity as well. I see many layers in what Q'uo says, but what it comes down to is that we our first response to others should not be fear, it should be the open heart.

You mention how much people love their homes - and I wish everyone who is anti-refugee would realize how much those people really love their homes, too. They just don't want to see them blown up. They are leaving out of necessity, not because they are so excited to go to a country where they know no one and can't speak the language. So yes, often, it is a very human (instinctual) thing to be protective of our homes, and to defend the boundaries of our "territories", which is exacerbated when our system of capitalism keeps us in a state of fearing availability of resources. "How can we feed and shelter them if we can't even care for the homeless on the street?" Well, we can... we're just trapped in a system where we continue to choose not to.