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
"If you love everybody in the Fellowship, you are not getting to enough meetings." To the material mind, that is true. It is also a clever saying which gives us a grin, and that's hard to hate.
It is deeper though that we need to ponder...to the rest of the story. When, not if, we have a particular and particularly unloved person in our life, our need is to get closer to that one. Hard to remember but our goal is not to get them to like us, it is to get over our resistance to them.
Sun Tzu's enemy that we are to subdue is the enemy within, our ego. To subdue our ego, we go to God and realize there is no harm in ego, only in our resistance to ego. Through I See Me, we have learned to love, that daily we must continue to learn to love. Only love.
To deflate our ego without fighting isn't a skill set to learn, it is a state of mind...it is our raised consciousness of resist not evil...resist not enemy...resist not ego. Love is nonresistance all grown up into acceptance.
If you overcome your enemies, you’ve failed. If you make your enemies your partners, God has succeeded. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 9, 2016
Thank you.
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