This learning how to love is an ongoing, neverending event in our life. Recently, I shared my blinding flash that humiliation is humility aborning which has proven itself to me to be true. I got a less-than wonderful response...angry in a word. As in, "Humiliation is never a good teacher," followed by an example of feeling humiliated by another.
My first within reaction was resistance to the speaker, but my immediate next response was to recognize it wasn't the speaker, it was the speaker's angry response I needed to accept. I began internalizing that as the level of love that I have been opening to for so long.
This internal work allows us to mentally go over how an accepting attitude toward the anger of another may calm the other, or it may do nada, or it may inflame the other. None of which are ours to fix, set straight or react to in anyway. This is where the advice "if you are not being heard, shake the dust off your feet and move on" applies so well.
Apparently we are not meant to be heard by everybody...and they have every right and reason to believe that we're the ones not hearing. Call it a draw and move on...the hardest part of that is to honestly move on mentally. There it is...the new and next level of love. Learning how to hug it and kiss it and let it go in our egoic mind.
The "it" that we want to change almost alway is the person bearing the unbearable message. Again, our lesson to personalize nothing comes to save our peace.
In the end, the humiliation we feel is not dumped on us by them. No, it is born within us, in our ego's resistance, say to feeling disrespected by them, then not winning the respect we think we need.
Agree with your adversary quick, fast and in a hurry. If someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek. Resist not evil...recognize it as an invitation for our spiritual growth to take seed.-- My take on parts of the Sermon.
Thank you.
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