CEASE FIGHTING, SUBDUE THE ENEMY WITHIN

We have ceased fighting anything and anybody. -- Anonymous

When first we read or hear that statement, if we're doing it right, we think it is a misprint. It is not. It is truth, and one how-to is in the following statement of Saint John of the Cross: It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. 

Face it, all disagreements, arguments, fights, wars begin with a simple difference of opinion. One judging the other as wrong, the other judging the one as wrong. Fight!

It is fear, of course, that holds judging close. We find we must seek the cause of the fear within us, then seek to understand the thing about the person we are judging...for that, not the person, is the cause of the fear. The thing we fear is within us...what we see is always ourself.

Our help comes in seeking (whether we find it or not) to understand that which we are judging. The seeking is the changeup. Seeking to understand changes our mind...from self, deeper to a higher level within. 

When we are perceiving a problem, count on it, it is our interpretation of what we are seeing that is the source of our upset. Upgrade our attitude, upgrade our problem.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu

Thank you.