Love. Living for others. For the peace of mind of others. My long, sometimes dreary, often delightful journey has brought me to the recognition that my need to live for others began (and continues) through thank you. Thank you to the happenings of my daily life. Plain and simple, we welcome our perceived problem du jour.
We pray not for a problem to be lifted for that perception is our gateway to understanding our own self...what we see is always ourself. We cannot sincerely seek peace for others if we have only a surface understanding of our own self. A want-to without intent, clearly.
Eknath Easwaran wrote that Gandhi believed even without reference to spirituality, joy lies in living for the welfare of all. I suspect that is just as the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr., believed.
Gandhi, a Hindu, King, a Baptist, neither of the so-called elite white community, both becoming world-renowned leaders for peace, both assassinated, both long dead, still leading through their singular consciousness of nonviolence. Ah, nonviolence, a way of putting love to work in resolving problems, healing relationships, and generally raising the quality of our lives (also Gandhi).
There. According to me, that defines resist not evil. Which cannot be done but by love.
When evil comes calling, if we don't have love in our heart, our soul, our body and our brains, we must needs resist. It is the perception of evil that comes knocking at the door of our rational mind; if we are not living in the higher consciousness of love, we reflexively resist. And we cannot live in the consciousness of love when we are living, thinking, feeling, doing for the betterment (which we call protection) of ourself first and/or only.
Whether we know it or not, there are miracles happening every day that protect us from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but it is only through our raised consciousness of love that we have no need to know that.
We live trusting the God of our own understanding to intervene in our live on our behalf...and thereby free us to be of benefit to another.
Thank you.
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