02-18-2021, 05:24 PM
(02-18-2021, 04:49 PM)Patrick Wrote:(02-18-2021, 02:37 PM)ScottK Wrote:(02-18-2021, 09:50 AM)MrWho Wrote: The only answer to "evil" is to accept and love it. Whatever one may seem to observe as, "evil".
So a burglar breaks into your house with a gun drawn, rapes your wife, steals your valuables, and you respond by saying you love them?
Probably not, not at first at least. BUT I wish I could do that. If not love, then at least forgive.
In the moment, you have clear built-in biases toward survival and self-defense, so it is not really realistic to not have a charged reaction.
But if you distill the event afterwards within the perception of unity, then you recognize yourself within this other-self and it makes things simpler to forgive or feel love. I don't think it means to feel joyful, more like a compassionate sorrow for yourself within the patterns of this other-selves. No one is well doing things like that, so you recognize the need of healing and love.
The Law of One is really useful in understanding these things. Knowing that both ourselves and our other-selves experience things within a hall of mirrors and that what we do to others is in fact what we do to our own reflection. The holiest of saints is really just the same potential to have been the worst sinner within different circumstances, so in the perception of unity you really just recognize your own potential to be each of the many things you can witness. Like Ra said, are you not all things?