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Doing by Being: A New Activism

By Sebastian Blaksley

I grew up thinking that things should be achieved with effort and dedication. I learned in the past that merit and striving had an intrinsic capacity to add value to my actions. “If I do it with sacrifice, somehow it will be worth more.” I set goals, developed action plans, executed them, and then evaluated whether they were effective or not. If they were not, I would redirect things with new activities born from a continuous process of struggle, action, and searching.

This learning was so deeply rooted in me that it had become a pattern. As such, it not only influenced the sphere of my practical life: work, profession, education, and so on, but it also set the pulse for my spiritual life. “I have to do things to make this world a better place,” “I must strive to be an ever-better person, to elevate myself in virtue,” and many similar ideas. In short, we all learn this as children, some more, some less.

To a certain extent, this way of thinking sets the rhythm of the hours in our lives, especially in these so-called “modern” times. Often hectic times. And the more so, the more valued they are in certain areas. With this, I learned ideas such as, “important people are always busy” and many others derived from this pattern of behavior, so deeply rooted in our minds and hearts.

And yet, one day while I was in prayer, our Divine Mother appeared, and everything changed for me. At that time, my heart burned with the desire to “do things” to elevate myself, to unite myself with Christ. To heal. To live fully and make my life work fully. To be happy. In short, those things we all seek in one way or another. But that day, the following dialogue took place within me.

“My son, you ask yourself, What to do? Nothing. What to desire? Nothing. What to think? Nothing. What to seek? Nothing.”

And my soul pondered: “What will remain for me, then, when I have nothing?”

And the sweet voice from Heaven answered: “It will remain All.” After that, it told me: “Let yourself be loved.”

As a result of that experience, an edifice of great truths manifested within me. I immediately knew there was another path: that of Doing by Being. One that is governed by the Law of Not Doing. This profound understanding changed me. I began to experience the following with greater clarity:

When we remain in the stillness of the heart, in union with our true being of pure love, in oneness with the Source that is unshakable peace, we return to our original state, that of being limpid channels of divine power. We connect our humanity with the ever-creative power of spirit, the unbending force that creates the universe and sustains it eternally. An unparalleled power, which does by being. What it does is accomplished in unison—not with actions, but with presence. Not through acts arising from mental elaboration, but from the creative strength of love. Creation does that by being. Just being what it is.

This is how I understood more deeply what some wise men said when they proclaimed that God does nothing; He-She simply is. This knowledge became evident to me. Certainly, when we are united with inner peace, we are guided by the Spirit. It accomplishes everything within us. We live in a state of Grace, like children in the arms of a mother. That is, surrendered, devoted to love. By this renunciation of being our own creators, we let love guide our existence, the Consciousness that inhabits us, gives life, and takes care of us entirely. It does what needs to be accomplished in our individual and collective lives in harmony with the universal plan of remaining in fullness, now and forever. This, of course, concerns everything. Not just personal life.

I knew then that there was “another way.” Another way of living. One that includes the fulfillment of the true desires of my heart, in their entirety. This encompasses the sincere desire to live in a better world, to ensure that current and future generations can enjoy peace and harmony, the desire for fulfillment for everyone and everything in creation. I also understood that I was not created to love, but to be loved, and thus to be love. This led me to the profound knowledge that my function in this world is doing by being. That is, to allow. To let the work of love be accomplished in me and through me. To open myself to receiving divine abundance and not to predefine what should be done or how.

Here we can find the answer to a new activism, one that has a concrete impact on the world of human forms and actions. One whose source is the Spirit, and is born in inner silence, in the peace of the soul. In coherence and integrity. As a result, a manifestation will emerge that will flood the Earth with a love that has no beginning or end. This is because we externalize what we believe we are. Walking this path, things are renewed in the Grace of truth, not by what we accomplish following the thinking mind, but by what manifests from Infinite Consciousness to the world of form through us.

I feel that A Course in Miracles (ACIM), A Course of Love (ACOL), Choose Only Love (CHOL), and The Age of the Heart (ATH), as other revelations, invite us to this path. They do so, for example, when they speak of “I need do nothing” (ACIM, T-18.VII), “The Way of Mary” (ACOL, D:Day19), “Conscious Non-Planning” (ACOL, C:17), “The Way of Being” (CHOL, Book VII), and “Total Abandonment in Love” (ATH, Ch. 11).

This new activism is one of contemplation, of pure devotion and deep trust. One in which we live consciously united with our hearts. Waiting in love. Listening to its voice. Following its silent dictates. In short, doing by being. We co-create as divine channels. We judge nothing. We simply are. And by being, we transform the world, because of our unity with the Source of endless life, and all holy actions.