Yet projection will always hurt you. It reinforces your belief in your own split mind, and its only purpose is to keep the separation going. It is solely a device of the ego to make you feel different from your brothers and separated from them. The ego justifies this on the grounds that it makes you seem “better” than they are, thus obscuring your equality with them still further.
T-6.II.3:1-4
A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
We see things in others that are problematic for ourselves. Jesus said “Why do you see a speck in your brother’s eye when there is a log in your own?” The ego wants us to feel superior to others to enhance and maintain its own status. We are different from them. We think to ourselves, “I might be bad but I am not as bad as they are.” When we are accused our first defense we used as children is “What about them?”
In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote the acceptance of each other and the encouragement to spiritual growth. UUs make a big deal, usually, of everybody being welcome. Francis David said, “We need not think alike to love alike.”
Today it is suggested that we think about the people we dislike and ask ourselves why? What are the factors that engender disgust, annoyance, hatred? What is it that we are afraid of?
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