Perfect post as always Sean. Yes, always respond to a call for love with love as only love is real. It is the only way we can ever return to sanity, to reality, to peace. It is hard to love someone that has done something outrageous or cruel, but you are loving the Truth of who they are, the Love that they truly are. Our job is to remind ourselves and the world of the Truth of Itself. Constant hard work I know, as every day the ego would tell us a different story about our brothers. But we do know the truth and so we must work at the salvation of all our brothers and bring everyone, the outrageous and the cruel, back to salvation. Keep posting Sean as I love reading them, Much Love and blessings Suzy xxx
Thanks for this, Sean. Very thought provoking. It brings to mind something Judith Skutch wrote about a get-together she had with Willis Harman and Helen Shucman. Willis Harman asked Helen Shucman her true feelings about A Course in Miracles. She replied, “you see Willis, I know it’s true, but I just don’t believe it.”
I know what you are saying here is True, just as what Jesus said about loving our enemies is True. But in my humanity, in my ego, it’s really hard to accept that I am called to love a racist.
At the same time, knowing that choosing not to love is buying into the myth of separation…it certainly gives me something to think about!
Sean, thank you for this timely writing. I think humanity has never been more in the middle of all this, then it is today. Your words have brought some understanding and clarity to me on not only coping with the tension of separation, but the attitude to adopt to help heal it, starting with myself.
I just completed Ken Wilber‘s book “Trump and a Post Truth World“ in my quest to try to better understand what’s seemingly contributing to more separation and decisiveness, and a way to move beyond it. He came at it from a different angle, but by the end, the solution is essentially the same as what you speak to here - both sides removing judgement and replacing loveless voids with love.
With both his perspective, and now yours, wrapping my head (and heart) around this, becomes incrementally clearer. Thank you for taking the time and effort to share.
I really, really appreciated this - thank you, Sean. It's one of the aspects of the Course that seemed sort of all very well in theory, but in practice made little sense to me and really puzzled me. I have also at times felt it encouraging of an acceptance of abuse of power - I just didn't know how to orientate myself towards it. Something useful was beginning - beginning - to loosen around it for me, but your piece truly opens it out. Very big thanks. Julian
Thank you for writing so eloquently on this. It does indeed take great patience and humility to 'say nothing' and 'just be' when in the presence of perceived hostility or opposition and shift my judgmental ego mind to the reality that we are all a child of God. The letting go of perceptions is paramount if I want peace so I'll keep stumbling my way to Oneness.
Perfect post as always Sean. Yes, always respond to a call for love with love as only love is real. It is the only way we can ever return to sanity, to reality, to peace. It is hard to love someone that has done something outrageous or cruel, but you are loving the Truth of who they are, the Love that they truly are. Our job is to remind ourselves and the world of the Truth of Itself. Constant hard work I know, as every day the ego would tell us a different story about our brothers. But we do know the truth and so we must work at the salvation of all our brothers and bring everyone, the outrageous and the cruel, back to salvation. Keep posting Sean as I love reading them, Much Love and blessings Suzy xxx
Thanks for this, Sean. Very thought provoking. It brings to mind something Judith Skutch wrote about a get-together she had with Willis Harman and Helen Shucman. Willis Harman asked Helen Shucman her true feelings about A Course in Miracles. She replied, “you see Willis, I know it’s true, but I just don’t believe it.”
I know what you are saying here is True, just as what Jesus said about loving our enemies is True. But in my humanity, in my ego, it’s really hard to accept that I am called to love a racist.
At the same time, knowing that choosing not to love is buying into the myth of separation…it certainly gives me something to think about!
Sean, thank you for this timely writing. I think humanity has never been more in the middle of all this, then it is today. Your words have brought some understanding and clarity to me on not only coping with the tension of separation, but the attitude to adopt to help heal it, starting with myself.
I just completed Ken Wilber‘s book “Trump and a Post Truth World“ in my quest to try to better understand what’s seemingly contributing to more separation and decisiveness, and a way to move beyond it. He came at it from a different angle, but by the end, the solution is essentially the same as what you speak to here - both sides removing judgement and replacing loveless voids with love.
With both his perspective, and now yours, wrapping my head (and heart) around this, becomes incrementally clearer. Thank you for taking the time and effort to share.
I really, really appreciated this - thank you, Sean. It's one of the aspects of the Course that seemed sort of all very well in theory, but in practice made little sense to me and really puzzled me. I have also at times felt it encouraging of an acceptance of abuse of power - I just didn't know how to orientate myself towards it. Something useful was beginning - beginning - to loosen around it for me, but your piece truly opens it out. Very big thanks. Julian
Thank you for writing so eloquently on this. It does indeed take great patience and humility to 'say nothing' and 'just be' when in the presence of perceived hostility or opposition and shift my judgmental ego mind to the reality that we are all a child of God. The letting go of perceptions is paramount if I want peace so I'll keep stumbling my way to Oneness.