UNTIL WE GET IT RIGHT

Blinding flash of  the obvious: We neither get nor do we maintain a resentment from the way another treated us. We get and maintain a resentment by our reaction to the way we perceive another treated us...by resisting through reliving our perception. 

It is our reactive discourtesy, hurt or anger, that we keep replaying in our heads, trying to perfect it in order to make the other pay. The resentment is our ego's inability to be satisfied...to get it just right in our own heads for us to feel ego-satisfying justice.

Until we accept that there is God and that is all, the ego will resist all to defend, to protect.

The spiritual secret is: There is no me to defend or protect. 

That is where the solution lies...in the realization fully and completely that there is no me to protect, to defend, to feel mistreated in the first place. It is the reasoning mind that deals in duality. It is the mental picture that gives life to our ego.  That is the sense of self that bars God's entry.

To simplify the entire process, we do not need to believe or disbelieve anything...just be the first to be courteous. No matter what we perceive coming at us... just respond courteously and move on mentally and physically. Mentally in particular for just speaking polite words and thinking otherwise just breeds resentment...and there we go again.

All this is no more, no less, than trying to DO the prayer of Saint Francis. We say it, most of us love it...but doing it? A whole 'nother life. And that we will get...until we get it right.

Thank you.