If you really believe that you are an infinite being, then it follows that there cannot be anything that you are not.
So when you are seeing behaviour and beingness that you don’t approve of, it can only be an aspect of you. All the anger, meanness, greed, lack of caring, war-mongering, cruelty … all of that, all YOU.
Trump, May, Johnson, Corbyn, Putin, Kim Jong Un, even Farage … all aspects of *you*
Crazed jihadists, fundamentalist Christians, flat-earthers, and rabid priests of science … all aspects of you.
But don’t be too hard on yourself, you are also all the good things in the world – the mother’s loving smile, the baby’s chuckle, the artist’s fine appreciation of the world, the selfless caring of the relief worker – all you.
Everything you criticise or admire in “others” … all you!
And yet, we’re always being told to be compassionate towards others because we don’t know what’s going on in their lives. Surely if they are an expression of your infinite being, how can you not know?
The answer that works best for this particular expression of Us, the one experiencing being an English man in his 50s called Andrew Horder, is that we do know, we just choose, for some rather perverse and as yet unexplained reason, to close ourself off to the knowing.
So the question then becomes, what would it take for us to acknowledge that knowing?
And how might that make the world a better place?
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