COMPASSION FOR OUR MESSED UP MINDS - Fw: The Face of Love

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Nick Ralls sent a message to the members of The Face of Love.--------------------Subject: COMPASSION FOR OUR MESSED UP MINDSAffirmation for Wednesday November 25thI seek not to judge or condemn people... as our society does... for those who are diseased in the mind. So much bad behaviour comes about through messed up thinking, my own included, and I now seek to heal and change these conditions of the mind so that we can all have more love and peace.THERE is disease in the body. This is healed, sometimes naturally and sometimes with help from clinicians or healers.And there is disease in the mind.This is not approached or remedied with the same loving care... and this is why the world never seems to heal itself of its intrinsic mental sickness.Because when people get sick in the mind they are met with violence, punishment, two wrongs do make a right, castigation, humiliation

and meted out isolation.If it is not enough that their sickness resulted in violent words and violent acts, those who are now judging them and punishing them deliver more of the same.So the whole world gets sick. Or even sicker.When are we going to get it that those who behave badly in our lives, in our communities and in the world are people who are messed up in the mind?And so it is true of us when we play out of tune, strike a wrong chord, behave in a way that takes us out of loveBut when we do fall from grace... fall out of love... do we need to be beaten with a stick for our transgression.Does the stuffing have to be knocked out of us?And who is without sin, may he or she cast the first stone.So, our leaders show us how not to behave at times... although at other times let us not miss their expression of the divine in the world.When someone behaves badly, let us show

compassion to this miscreant as much as part of us might like to wring their neck for their insolence, ingratitude or wickedness.But the real issue that here is someone who is in a state of DIS-EASE.And disease does not always lie in the body as much as it might be simpler to believe this is where it happens.DIS-EASE is rife in the mind.We can see that when messed up thinkers drop bombs on innocent civilians...plan revenge attacks... or put people to death....We can see this when people rant and rave and let rip violence in our communities.We can see this when people choose to abuse others rather than revere and respect them.But when we meet up with a wrong minded person, as we surely must, we need to recognise that they are the walking wounded... they are messed up... and there is a reason why they are so dysfunctional and so dangerous.When we understand what makes a person act in a way

that is less than the highest vision they might of themselves we can then see things differently.. through the eyes of love and compassion rather than condemnation and seeking retribution.We might see their earlier suffering.We might begin to understand their anger.And we might consider that had we been subjected to what they had been subjected to we might have behaved in much the same way... or along the same lines, at any rate.Then what do we do?Do we stone them... hang them or draw and quarter them? Write them off?Or do we begin to wish them healing and assist them in that healing if we are in a position to do so.Certainly sending loving energy to those who have lost their way... political leaders and all... is a positive move to shift our collective energy into more unity and more love.But when we join them in their game... go to their level... an eye for an eye... revenge...

retribution... punishment....then we move our collective energy to even more DIS-EASE.Those who are messed up in their thinking and sick in their mind need our understanding and need to be given the chance to heal that thinking and to change.We can all change.And yet are we so clever or even wise when we deny people that change when we seek to remind them over and over again just how wicked and just how evil they are.Better to acquaint them with who they can be and most probably would be if we did not cast our label on them in such a way that it should stick.So dear and beautiful friend.. do open your heart and share what is going on for you on this subject or any subjectI love youNick--------------------http://intentionalone.com/powersoflove.html___This message was

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