January 31, 2017
It is essential that we look within with a willingness to see clearly what is within our minds, what thoughts and thought system we are operating from. We must look at our relationships honestly. Are we harboring special hate relationships and special love relationships? Why do we hang on to these relationships and remain attached to them when they do not serve us? In our effort to maintain an identity that is separate, we revert to special relationships, whether love or hate, that serve to keep us unaware of our Oneness with all and who we really are.
The special love relationship will not offset the special hate relationship, but will merely drive it underground and out of sight. It is essential to bring it into sight, and to make no attempt to hide it. For it is the attempt to balance hate with love that makes love meaningless to us. When we harbor hate, we cannot experience the magnitude and healing of real love.
The Course tells us this about love and hate:
The symbols of hate against the symbols of love play out a conflict that does not exist. For symbols stand for something else, and the symbol of love is without meaning if love is everything. You will go through this last undoing quite unharmed, and will at last emerge as yourself. This is the last step in the readiness for Oneness. Be not unwilling now; you are too near, and you will cross the bridge in perfect safety, translated quietly from war to peace. For the illusion of love will never satisfy, but its reality, which awaits you on the other side, will give you everything. T-16.IV.2:1-6
We do not understand what real love is. We tend to think of love as an opposite of hate, but this idea is wholly inadequate. In the presence of real love there can be no hate. Real love is all encompassing. Hate cannot exist in our minds in the presence of real love. Anything less than real love is an illusion. Real love, of Oneness, is all encompassing. It recognizes our wholeness, completeness, peacefulness and our Divine nature. Nothing can harm the real love within us. However, our unwillingness to look truthfully at our special hate and love relationships does block the awareness of real love from our minds. The special love relationship is an attempt to limit the destructive effects of hate by finding a haven in the storm of guilt. It makes no attempt to rise above the storm, into the sunlight. On the contrary, the special love relationship emphasizes the guilt outside the haven by attempting to build barricades against guilt, and keep within them. The special love relationship is not perceived as a value in itself, but as a place of safety from which hatred is split off and kept apart. This is the illusion of the special love relationship. And it will always let us down.
Love is not an illusion. It is a fact. Where disillusionment is possible, there was not love but hate. For hate is an illusion, and what can change was never love. It is sure that those who select certain ones as partners in any aspect of living, and use them for any purpose which they would not share with others, are trying to live with guilt rather than die of it. This is the choice they see. And love, to them, is only an escape from death. They seek it desperately, but not in the peace in which it would gladly come quietly to them. And when they find the fear of death is still upon them, the love relationship loses the illusion that it is what it is not. When the barricades against it are broken, fear rushes in and hatred triumphs. T-16.IV.4:7-10
Hatred need not triumph in our minds. It is an illusion. Hare can only triumph if we allow it to do so. Look honestly at hate whenever it comes up. Look within to the higher Holy Spirit Self we are and let real Love shine brightly in your mind. Hate cannot remain in the presence of real love and will fade into nothingness as it is merely illusion. Release your attachment to that illusion and allow the presence of your Divine nature to rise in its place. And rest in the peace of Oneness you will find there. Rest in the reality of the Love within you.
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