Saturday, June 9, 2018

WE ARE THE LOVE WE SEEK

...love the innermost self of all about us. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words To Live By"

There it is. In order to love your enemy as yourself, we need to love the innermost self of all our perceived enemies. The Father is within everybody so we'd best open our heart...beginning with out mind...to loving the Father within everybody. 

I'm guessing we err when we try to love our enemy by trying to love that which we object to. Our error is when we get specific and our ego objects...in righteous indignation. As in, we picture Gertrude, who cheated us, lied about us, whatever, and we're trying to love that cheating, lying Gertrude. Well, good luck...we're going for spiritual not stupid.   

We make our U-bie when we remember the gift from our original decision to seek still more spiritual growth...specifically, we now follow directions from a higher plane than our reasoning mind is accorded.  

We turn again, and always, to spirituality's first lesson: We must flow with the go, with the good, with God. That starts in our head where we let go of our own idea of what we need, and we invite a spiritual solution. This is probably the hardest part because it takes time, but we soon learn that we get nowhere until we take the time needed. When we get it there, it will begin its journey down to our heart, and almost without stopping, it flows freely into/out from our Soul, God's hidey-hole. 

The it, of course, is love, and our perceived enemy is no longer personal to us...s/he is the love we have. 

Thank you.

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