From Dawn to Dusk... the journal |
Tuesday, February 19, 2002 * I can see the floor... Good news. Today the floor is clean and the rug is vacuumed. The desk is not tidy, but it is somewhat better. So, I am making progress... slowly. Was reading something today and am going to play around with it somewhat here. If it doesn't sound coherent, don't blame the content, it's probably my presentation of it that's lacking. It's concerning people's actions and how to react to them. If a person directs hate/inappropriate thoughts or actions towards you (or perhaps not even towards you directly but you happen to be in the vacinity) somehow it would be a good thing if you would counteract these with acts of love. This makes some sense to me, but it's the somehow that eludes me. You're not supposed to let yourself/or anyone else be a victim, and sometimes it may be necessary to distance yourself, but in general it seems that you should be able to nullify the hateful or inappropriate actions by either not reacting in kind or reacting with love... or both. In other words, the higher mind tells us that we should make the effort to diffuse the hate... and only love can do this... since 'hate is love going the wrong way' (yeh, I know, it sounds strange...but I find a bit of truth there... so I'm giving it a lot of leeway). I do believe that hate/inappropriate thoughts or actions are a manifestation of "extreme need". And even though we are all not equiped to handle extreme need, we can do our part. If all it takes is making the effort... to give a little love... at the same time realizing that there's a good chance it will be thrown back in our face - or worse - at least at first. And hey, I'm not talking about War or Afghanistan here. I'm talking about people we deal with all the time, people in our offices, neighborhoods, homes, and/or families. People who seem to thrive on creating chaos and who drain the very energy from our bodies... Surely you know at least one person who does this? If not, you're blessed... or as the book says, perhaps your time has not come. When you're ready for them, or when they're ready for you, your paths will cross. I'm not going to go any further with this tonight as the Olympics are on and I really want to go watch the women's figure skaters. So, for tonight... that's all folks. Rian |
