Heavenletters

I came to this letter after Jochen quoted it in response to the Sept. 6, 2009 daily Heavenletter. Thank you, Jochen.

"Alas, the world does not know the worthiness of every single soul. In the world, many do not know this at all.”

How true! This seems to encapsulate the difficulty mankind must work out on this planet.

“When people see from a limited vision, they are not thinking. They are not loving. They are coming from a cut-off perspective and so are blinded.”

This helps me have more compassion for those who lash out and injure others. To see them as lashing out blindly is something I can certainly relate to. I can see myself in their actions. I agree with Andrea’s sentiments.

“They see their affronting you as sticking up for themselves, as if they have to stick up for themselves and their point of view, and this sticking up becomes urgent, and thus their perception is darkly clouded. Either for sport or for seriousness, they have seen something in you as an affront to them.”

This also seems to be a profound observation of human behavior. How many times have we seen “personality conflicts” where something about one person triggers another to attack them in some way? This theme seems to run through a lot of human actions – perhaps even to the mega-level of war.

“It's a funny thing, how interchangeable the parts are. It's strange, isn't it, that those who condemned Christ saw themselves as victims and Christ in the wrong?”

I have never thought about this in this way before. It is like a light bulb lighting up in my brain for me! It must be true, though. Everything I have observed about people and their behavior supports this statement. I have been so fixated I never considered the views of his attackers in any kind of depth. Could my angry attitude be at least partly self-righteous? Perhaps.

A wonderful letter that has helped me to look at things in new and useful ways.

Peace and love to all………Chuck