Injustice (from March 28, 2010)
During this time, Alberto and I were going through a very difficult
situation where we were being vilified and attacked for trying to introduce new
ideas that we (and those whom we represented) wanted to see implemented. We
felt a strong sense of injustice, of being unfairly attacked on personal levels,
when all we wanted to do was bring about an opening of perspectives in an
environment that was especially conservative, almost dictatorial.
I meditated a great deal during that time, trying to find the energy and
will to act with love and wisdom. In one of my meditations, words flowed that
shifted my thinking into what the true nature of this situation was all about.
It’s important to
understand that their choices do not reflect on you as a person. They are not
an attack on you, and do not make you any less of who you are. Their choices,
and the consequences of those choices, are theirs alone.
Don’t be fooled by
appearances, by what you perceive as their winning and your losing.
How are you any
different than the Palestinian or Israeli who has lost a loved one, and is now
asked to love their “enemy”? How is your situation right now, your thoughts,
your feelings any different from theirs? How can you ask them to “love their
enemy” when you yourself can’t do it? And all they did to you was injure your
pride, your sense of right and wrong.
I tell you this…that
until you find that forgiveness, that peace and love for your perceived enemy
in this situation, no one in your outer world will be able to do it. The first
step is within you.
Find that place of
PEACE within you, and you have it found it for the world.
Find it, nurture
it, and watch it expand to heal the world.
That is all you
have to do.
You are the living
Light and example.
Your strength in
that feeling feeds it, gives it POWER… and it is that power, the power of that
feeling, that energy, that vibration that heals you and, in consequence, the
world.
Find that place of
certainty, and with that certainty, you have healed the world.
It is no small
task, for you are undoing millennia of evolution, of DNA and cells programmed
with thought-patterns that are interconnected with feeling-patterns. The break
(and healing) must happen on all levels.
That is the
journey of peace…yours and humanity’s.
Me: How do I liberate myself from these feelings of injustice, of being
wronged, of betrayal, of having lost a battle… they all weigh me down and
distract me from being able to do all that you suggest.
The Light that you
are can never be destroyed. You must understand that first. The flame that
Moses saw is the flame and spark inside of you. That will never change. That is
God in you wrapped in layers of flesh and density for the purpose of
experimenting.
But this seed
never dies. It only expands and burns more brightly as your knowing expands.
Release your thoughts.
Breathe. Deeply. Drop into your heart. Your mind demands answers to your
questions. But until you can FEEL your essence, you cannot arrive at an answer
that satisfies both heart and soul, and not simply your mind.
The love in your
heart makes your beautiful thoughts more beautiful, and amplifies them. In its
presence, your negative thoughts can’t help but disperse and fade away. They are
healed and transformed, not destroyed, in the presence of your love.
It is a heart
filled with Divine Love that heals your thoughts, nothing more. Its presence
moves you to tears for the exquisite beauty, simplicity and grace of your task.
There is nothing more
to do than that…than to FEEL LOVE in every moment.
Your mind screams
at you for more. It wants more concrete answers, solutions, affirmations…but
the answer lies in the feeling of this energy called LOVE in every moment.
Look at your
perceived enemy. Look closely. Where do you think that “enemy” truly is? Where do
you think that energy came from? Who do you think put it there?
You placed that ‘dictator-you’
there to heal her, to give her the same light you give yourself.
Your heart is
divided, and the only way it knew to show you its pain and division was to put
it out for you to plainly see it, to touch it, to give it form.
While inside your
heart, the pain remains nebulous, untouchable, formless.
Thus, in your
quest for healing and Self-mastery, you decided to give your pain form.
The ‘dictator’ is
your pain. She came forth from within your heart -- you gave her that form -- desiring
nothing more than that she be seen so that you may understand her. She is you, the
pain of a divided heart manifesting itself in this form so that you may finally
see her, and bring her relief.
YOU are the
projector. You project pain, feelings, experiences that need to be healed. You project
them through the lens of your heart for the sole and soul purpose of bringing
them the peace and love they/you truly desire.
When you express love
towards them, you are expressing love towards yourself.
When you see them
as wounds to be healed, you are seeing your wounds that are asking for healing.
To translate this
knowledge into action requires tremendous courage.
Grow in love and
appreciation for the ‘dictator-me’ or the ‘victim-me’ or the ‘fearful-me’. Fill
your heart with love and appreciation for them/you.
Forgiveness is an
energy that they will feel emanating from you. So is love.
You don’t have to
do anything more than RADIATE that feeling/energy/vibration to them. Nothing more.
Grand gestures are
not needed, for they may not be ready to receive them at this time. But they
will be attracted to your energy, and in time, will embrace it.
It’s like a lover
tentatively reaching out to a desired beloved. She will not necessarily embrace
him all at once, but his love leaves an imprint that desires to grow, for that
is the nature of love… to grow.
And so, send it
out at all times. FEEL it at all times. Don’t merely think it. Your thoughts
are not enough. Your FEELINGS are what are most needed.
And so shall you
create peace.
