Friday, July 1, 2022

We need not think alike to love alike.


You cannot understand yourself alone. This is because you have no meaning apart from your rightful place in the Sonship, and the rightful place of the Sonship is God. This is your life, your eternity and your Self. It is of this that the Holy Spirit reminds you. It is this that the Holy Spirit sees. This vision frightens the ego because it is so calm. Peace is the ego’s greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival. The ego becomes strong in strife. If you believe there is strife you will react viciously, because the idea of danger has entered your mind. The idea itself is an appeal to the ego. The Holy Spirit is as vigilant as the ego to the call of danger, opposing it with His strength just as the ego welcomes it. The Holy Spirit counters this welcome by welcoming peace. Eternity and peace are as closely related as are time and war. T-5.III.8: 1  -  13


A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


The ego loves strife and conflict because strife and conflict justify and expand its existence. The Holy Spirit rises above strife and conflict and brings the peace of being a part of something larger, transcendent, and all encompassing. Would you have strife and conflict or peace and joy? If you choose peace and joy, the ego has to be encapsulated and eliminated.


In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the interdependent web of existence which is beyond our individual self and encompasses the Ground Of Being.


Today, give up strife and conflict. We need not think alike to love alike. Ask yourself, “What would love have me do?”


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