The more you practice loving kindness towards others, as well as yourself, the more your heart opens. The more you open your heart, the more challenges come your way and you want to close it. When you practice loving kindness at this deep level you will discover more kinder aspects of yourself.
If there is a personal desire to do something and preparations have been made, and if an act of nature or something else beyond your control happens, you must bow to that change. Knowing how to put aside personal priorities to fill the demands of the times is among the greatest of skills.
Don’t look at evil as a force to resist, but simply as an opaqueness, a state of self-absorption which is in disharmony with the universal process so that, as with a dirty window, the light cannot shine through. This allows you great compassion for the wicked and the selfish.
In order to influence each other, both parties should be sincere and free from judgement. Your heart and mind should be as pure as the clear sky and as open as the vast ocean. Thus, acting in harmony and being open, you can accept all people without prejudice.
Quote: The unconscious brings to us what it thinks we deserve.