The dials of life

 

 

 

In life we have really only four options, gps directions

 

What we don’t realize, is our gps is our heart / emotions / feelings / desire

 

Depending on which one is strongest, is exactly what we are thinking, speaking and doing

 

The ideal beyond which there is no other, is unconditional-love which means I don’t love others because they can help me, rather only because we are one and the same only in different bodies.

 

The second is I love others but this is like a dog loves others – a lion and dog once met – the dog asked the lion “it makes no sense ‘why are you, such a solitary lone creature called the king of the animals! – while I who smell everyone’s…, who licks everyone’s face, is called derogatorily ‘a dog’?” – “what don’t you understand” replied the lion “you love only those who feed you!”

 

Then there is fear – when fear enters, both unconditional and conditional love exit, in the overriding worry of how to protect oneself from what one fears.

 

And then there is hate and anger, a byproduct of fear, for if I resent the fact that a. someone else made me go from the enjoyable state of love, to the harrowing state of fear, and furthermore if I am jealous that others are in the enjoyable state of love and not in the harrowing state of fear, my mind begins to imagine all kinds of “genuine” evil in others – in my own life I can see how when I am happy, I see nothing to hate in others, but when I am miserable my mind shows me (even about the same person who I previously held no grudge or had any complaint against) reasons to hate them – this is why hate is almost impossible to detect and rid ourselves of – suffice it to remember, the Baal Shem Tov said (as Jung discovered) it is neigh impossible to see in another a fault you don’t have – so if you hate another for their evil, you might as well first hate yourself – and if you don’t hate yourself it’s only because you prefer to love yourself than hate yourself; so obviously, if you love another, they will love you! and if you hate them, they will hate you!