The contemplative work of inner conversion, inner disarmament, and inner peacemaking is the key to peace for the world...ah, there's the secret, the hidey-hole, for peace in our time...look inward, never out there.
Maybe acceptance really is the answer...period.
I'm about half convinced that to accept, really accept, is simply to get over our own self...in fact, to get over our own wants. Aren't wants just our personal opinion of what we believe we need?
We must seek to know, to understand, each other aright...and to understand the other is to accept them not just as they are, but as we perceive them to be. That is where impersonal love enters, fully clothed and ready to roll.
The impersonal love of our enemy as our self is to let go of the idea that "I must stand up for myself...protect me, my own." As we loose our resistance to our enemy, we are opened to God's perfect love.
Life itself is a contradiction...or is it that each soul walking through this life is a contradiction? If each soul had but one desire, i.e., to know God aright, life would still be a contradiction. A contradiction in that no one would even then be able to "explain" God, the God we seek to know aright...for the inner conversion that we seek is the realization of the Father within.
We're back to going to God for God and that is all, aren't we? And doesn't it fill you with peace, love and joy to know that the Father is within right this very red hot minute...and that we are and still will be seeking, searching and unknowingly showing forth that truth three days after we're dead?
And God loves us just exactly as we are...seeking and searching and unknowing.
Thank you.
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