One of the things I used to do is be highly reactive.  I can see now it was because my ego was so insecure, I felt threatened if people didn’t agree with me and that made me volatile.  

If I met people who seemed to disagree with me, I’d feel compelled to “take them on” and argue with them.  I needed to show them how wrong they were and how right I was.  

All of that was a complete waste of my time and energy and, of course, it brought me more of the same.  More painful lessons of fear and distrust.  Sigh.

What’s beautiful now is that if I encounter someone who completely disagrees with me, I can handle it.  I don’t need to  even tell them what I think or feel.  I can just take it in and let it be.  My Peace is far more valuable than being right.

I don’t wish to make anyone wrong.  (Unless I feel guided to help them, and they’ve come to me for that guidance – and then it’s not that THEY are wrong, but their thinking may be.)  

Even the folks who have a perspective that I feel is dangerous and hurtful – say, someone who’s an anti-semite or racist and spewing that kind of hatred – I don’t need to make them wrong.  I’m not going to egg them on.  That would serve to strengthen their own position in their mind.

Instead, let me demonstrate to them what Love and compassion look like and feel like.  That was the teaching of Jesus.  The teaching of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

I can show them the way of Love and Light without making them wrong.

I’m more interested in how I can support them in seeing the truth than anything else.

People who are spewing racism, sexism, anti-semitism and other kinds of thoughts are simply projecting their self-hatred outward.  They deserve our compassion.  Love is the only thing that will heal that, or ever has healed it.

Arguing with them and making them wrong is pointless.  

When you argue with a complainer they just feel like you don’t understand their point.  They will NEVER feel they’re wrong.  It’s their opinion.  Their opinion isn’t wrong, even if it’s misguided.  

Mark Twain famously said, “Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”  

And that’s a very good point.

To me, my life is about being of service to the Light.  If the person who is so miserable that they project their self-hatred onto innocent people doesn’t deserve my compassion, who does?  How else will I be able to help them transform their perspective?

Only Love can turn the table on racism.  Real Love and compassion, that’s what will help us all.

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