ON REFLECTING PEACE TOWARD OTHERS

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. -- Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Diary entry (September 29, 1942) 

Don't I wish I could remember that? It makes such pure sense to my mind...to have just one moral duty, to reclaim more and more peace in ourselves and reflect it toward others. 

I first wish to remember that since doing is not even on the to-do list until remembering is secured. And isn't peace in our self simply nonresistance?

A word about nonresistance: Nonresistance starts with not giving our reasoning mind a platform...that's our ego's disguise, our reasoning mind. Ego always legislates for itself, but it co-opts the reasoning mind in order to legitimize itself. Face it, who is going to cop to ego as their guide when it's the mind that has standing? And who's kidding whom? We all but brag about using our common sense when really that's just the reasoning mind trying to sound humble. 

The punchline, of course, is nonresistance is the basis for acceptance. It is impossible to get to acceptance by resisting. The paradox of acceptance: the quest and the answer both at the same time.

But I say unto you that ye resist not evil.... -- Matthew 5:44

Thank you.