A Mental Sticky Note

Whatever someone does, including ourselves, is either an Expression of Love, or a Call for Love.

It's not too hard to feel good about the Expressions of Love...the challenge is seeing through all the drama to identify a Call for Love, especially in the midst of it. If I can reflect upon someone's troubling behavior, no matter how vile, childish, petulant, violent, angry, entitled, unprofessional and dysfunctional I think it was, and remember that it was merely a Call for Love, then I'm that much ahead of the game the ego plays. That is the game of projection: no matter how much unconscious guilt any of us has corked up inside of us, as long as it's denied by us, it will find its way into the world and onto our favorite enemy, who acts only as a mirror for that projection.

Of course, that means that however I see my "enemy," and whatever judgements I have against his behavior, is how I'm really seeing myself because it's my own unconscious guilt being reflected back at me. As I become aware of my own inner, hidden guilt, i.e. by bringing it to consciousness bit by bit, it becomes a lot easier not to judge, but merely observe someone else's upsets. It becomes clearer that what I am seeing is just his own unconscious guilt being projected onto me. And that's just a Call for Love. I get to choose how to respond at that point: with the Holy Spirit and with quantum-style forgiveness, or with the ego, and to stay in the fracas. Of course, once that decision is made on the level of the Mind, whatever I do in the world of form to react doesn't really matter that much.

Ah, it's all just a big house of mirrors, really...am I seeing my reflection in you? or are you seeing your reflection in me? or are our reflections bouncing off all the other mirrors, leaving both of us with no point of reference at all? The answer is yes.