Re: Mirrors or triggers?

There may be a huge number of different messenges, but they can only have one of two effects: Either you feel happy or you don't. If you feel unhappy because of the way other people are, you carry a judgment in your heart about a part of yourself that you a not really aware of until you become emotional about it. It is very easy to feel compassion for nice people, but the real test for compassion comes when we face angry, unkind people. Anger can only be triggered in you if you have nager in you. So another person comes along who does something annoying and you become upset and angry. In reality, through you don't become angry because of his action, but because it brings up in you something a previuously expereinced frustration that was never resolved. Hence, the other person serves as a mirror for you to give you another opportunity to deal with it again. We run into many such mirrors to eventually come to a point in life where there is nothing left to react to. When there is no more need to protect or defend ourselves against, there will be only loving and kind mirrors in your life. Because you have no more division in your heart that separates the selfish, arrogant and superficial people in the world from the joyful, giving, and loving people, you will no nonger see anything wrong with the world. You can see the fear behind the aggression and the longing to be loved by those who manipulate others for their own gain. What you may call superficial are actually profound life struggles of personality selves that have temporarily lost contact with the higher spiritual selves. If you the best part in the worst people, they will respond to you in the same way. We are here to learn the art of living. Life is our lesson. Some lessons are hard, but they are also our best ones.

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