Close your eyes and imagine sending big love to people that you love.
Then close your eyes and imagine send big love to the people that you disagree with, despise, and fear.
It is not necessary to be angry in order to stand up to what is wrong. It is not necessary to hate or vilify an individual in order to stand up to the words or actions of that person. It is not necessary to feel self righteous when confronting what is not true or right.
Imagine that the ones you hate and fear need healing to remember who and what they really are.
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King
None of this implies passivity. Stand. Speak. Act. But when action moves from an inner basis of Love rather than hate or anger (fear), that action has infinitely more power, because its power is the very basis of all existence.
If you want to change the world, start by changing your inner world. If you want peace, be peaceful. If you want right action based in Love, base yourself in Love.
In essence, our work remains the same. Be Love in creative motion.
I so needed to read this today Natalie – thank you!
Just what I needed to hear! Thank you Natalie