Blog 555 – 02.24.2017

Why We Are So Hard On Others

And often we are not even aware that we are but consider ourselves very loving and compassionate to all. We do not even hear the curt word, the quick and harsh judgement, the casual condemnation of those who do not agree with our views, opinions, and beliefs. It is an ego thing and that puny little liar is so slick we are not even aware that he has tricked us again. Ego instigated the great lie, the great lie of separation, the illusion that we are separated from the One who is all in all and thereby from everyone and everything else. To keep up this elaborate ruse ego is busy like a juggler keeping that one ball in the air. Ego wants us to be mislead into thinking there is someone else to blame, to focus our anger on, when in reality we blame ourselves and rightfully so for buying into this colossal deception.

I read an autobiography recently of Mary Crowley, the founder of Home Interiors, a direct marketing company where women sell to other women in there homes similar to Amway or Tupperware. Mary was a remarkable and very successful business woman. She was a strong Christian and a member of the Baptist Church. She said something I have heard Christians say in one way or another all of my life. She said that she called herself Mary 3 because to her God came first, others second, and she third. I think that comes from Jesus’ two great commandments that he said fulfilled all the Law and The Prophets, the Jewish Bible, that Christians call The Old Testament. The two great commandments are:

“You shall love the LORD, your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

I changed the thou(s), thee(s), and shalt(s) to the more modern you(s) and shall(s). The priority of God first, others second, and ourself last is really unnecessary as love has no hiarchy. To love one is to love all and to refuse love to any is to deny love to all. Little ego is a tricky one and knows that if he can keep us hating anyone or anything that we will keep our eyes off the prize, away from the truth. The whole history of lies goes back to when we believed the first lie, a lie we invented when we first invented ego, that God was holding out on us, didn’t love us, didn’t want us to be equal to Him. Believing that lie lead to our feeling “unworthy” and not wanting to admit that and get the rift repaired, the lie became that it is the other guy that is unworthy, still a lie but one that our ego finds easier to work with.

Well, that is why I think we are so hard on others and ourself.They and we are really brothers and ego knows that but works very hard to live up to his other name, Satan, which literally translates “accuser of the brethren.” The reality, the truth is that God is Love. He has always loved us and that we, when we are in our right minds, cannot help but love Him back and all our brothers and everything really, everything that is real that is. You do not have to love ego in yourself or others because ego is not real.

I was thinking of John Lennon’s song Imagine again yesterday. It says, “Imagine there’s no heaven…” But I think what it is really saying is, “Imagine this is heaven…” Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within you. It is up to us to bring our treasures forth and make our world heaven on earth. That starts when we allow love to have its perfect way. And ego will fade to nothingness in the light of love, in the light of day.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White