To rebel is to ring a bell of Awakeness for all beings

By Joe Perez

A rebel is only as good as his cause. If you choose the path of the rebel, make service to all sentient beings your cause. From this wide stance which is completely un-alienating because it affirms the entirety of your Being, a more specific focus for rebellion may be seeded. It is by aligning our unique sense of cause or purpose with the good of all people and ultimate all beings that we avoid a painful mistake: allowing our rebellion to set one part of the Self against another part of the Self, a stance which is ultimately Self-defeating. Violence and burnout and consuming anger are signs that one is rebelling against, and not for. To rebel for is to ring a bell of Awakeness for all beings.