Photo by Allen Siewert,Sidewalk in Central Park adjacent to “Strawberry Fields” memorial.
What’s the point?
By Dr. Kirk Prine
The dream is the point. Being activated in your purpose is the point. Living from a place of abundance where less struggle and more ease abides in you is the point. Making a contribution and a difference is the point.
Those of us of a certain age can sing on cue the words of John Lennon’s song “Imagine:”
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Those of younger generations know it as a classic whose words speak as clearly today as when he wrote them.
There is another phrase awakening across cultures, “ We are the ones.” The whole sentence “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” has several threads of origin that I’m aware of. June Jordan, poet, novelist, teacher, human rights activist, and journalist has played a significant role in black arts and global politics. As a voice of liberation, she brought this statement forth in a Poem for South African women:
Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land
into new dust that
rising like a marvelous pollen will
fertile
even as the first woman whispering
imagination of the trees around her made
from righteous fruit
from such deliberate defense of life
as no other still
will claim inferior to any other safety
in the world.
The whispers too they
intimate to the inner most ear of every spirit
now arouse they
carousing in ferocious affirmation
of peaceable and loving amplitude
sound of certainty unbounded heat
from a baptismal smoke where yes
there will be fire
And the babies cease alarm as mothers
raise arms
and hearts high as stars so far unseen
nevertheless hurl into the universe
a moving force
irreversible as light years
traveling to the open eye
And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains a nd
if necessary
even under the sea
we are the ones we’ve been waiting for
This last line of the “Poem for South African Women” then became a song produced by the musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock. This chant now has been sung by thousands of people around the world who have been moved by its personal meaning.
Alice Walker, writer, social activist and visionary has since written a book called “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” to inspire faith that despite the overwhelming situations we find ourselves in, we are prepared to create positive change.
This thread of liberation felt in people’s bodies is why Donny and I chose to call our event for entrepreneurs, healers, and change agents, We Are the Ones. It is a call to activate your purpose and express that purpose through your business, products, services, gifts, and visions to make a di fference.
The work Donny and I do calls upon ancient and contemporary wisdom to free ourselves from the inside out. So it was even more curious in investigating the threads of origin for this saying “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” that the saying is also attributed to Hopi Elders. These words of the Hopi Elders are to awaken us. Listen to them.
No matter whether you think it is the hour or not and see how they speak to you especially as one committed to living out your purpose.
You have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour and there are things to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What a re your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
No your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community. Be good to each other and do not look outside yourself for the leader. This could be a good time. There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid they will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly. No the river has its destination. The elders say we must go off the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above water. See who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history we are to take nothing personally least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves, banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary and that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
-The Elders of Arizona Hopi nation.
The excitement, resonance, and prophetic call of these words are in the invitation we are putting out to you. So, what is the point? We will be giving you an opportunity to tell us in an upcoming call to action.
Something new and different is stirring and we’re excited to as each of you says yes to your own unique expression of this liberation. As entrepreneurs, healers, and change agents we are a movement contributing to change. The world needs us now. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
Take courage,
Kirk.
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