One of the major inner discoveries in my spiritual growth was the fact that I would never be free of my nemesis as long as I hated it, cursed it, prayed it be gone. It wasn't until my mind had been changed that I found I needed to hug it and kiss it to let it go...when I was ready for it to be released.
Heard in the rooms: We may want to go to Paris, we are certainly willing to go to Paris..ah, but there's a lot of preparation for us before we are ready to go to Paris. Same goes with our nemesis.
It's natural to love our assets, but it's brand new thinking to realize each of our defects of character needs love, too...more than our assets need love, we can see after the light first dawns. I suspect it was our resistance to a new-born defect of character that nurtured it into our nemesis.
Learning to love everything just as it is requires shucking our shields...that personal armor we've gripped for so long that chances are we originally had it at the head of our list of assets. (Which is probably why one of my once favorite songs has the line, Looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains.)
When we realize resist not evil is simply resist not hate, our mind begins to open...open to learning the art of impersonal love.
Hate begets hate which is a four letter word for resistance...change the four letters to love and its acceptance. And there we are...at the gateway to impersonal love.
Thank you.
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