My spiritual health depends on my unity with others. To have unity entails halting any mental attack on others, plus any verbal or physical manifestation of that attack. I must also withdraw my perception that I am attacked. What looks like attack is always, from the other person’s point of view, defence, and I understand from my own experience feeling the need to defend. To be at peace I must practise peace and see the ocean’s peace (beneath the choppy waves of the surface).
The truth is that my material self—which is temporary form—can be harmed, but my Spirit self cannot, and therein lies my true peace. The character can die but the actor does not die with the character. The wave falls back and is gone but the water is unharmed.
I was told today by a spiritual teacher that there are in his tradition always three perspectives at least to any situation. If I hold onto ‘my’ view and do not see yours, I’m seeing a maximum of one-third of reality.
To remain unified with you, which is what I want, I leave superficial differences undisturbed and look to the oneness that lies beyond the surface. That is where my reconnection with Source lies.
The truth is that my material self—which is temporary form—can be harmed, but my Spirit self cannot, and therein lies my true peace. The character can die but the actor does not die with the character. The wave falls back and is gone but the water is unharmed.
I was told today by a spiritual teacher that there are in his tradition always three perspectives at least to any situation. If I hold onto ‘my’ view and do not see yours, I’m seeing a maximum of one-third of reality.
To remain unified with you, which is what I want, I leave superficial differences undisturbed and look to the oneness that lies beyond the surface. That is where my reconnection with Source lies.