What are the things that you really don't like, or that make you uncomfortable? Liberals? Conservatives? Eating meat? Vegetarianism? How about strip clubs or pornography? Drugs or alcohol? Money and greed? War? What are all of the people, things, or situations that make you angry? Most people have a pretty long list of things they don't like, if they're honest about it. But every single item on our list is a mirror that shows us the things in ourselves that we do not love, and that is a gift.

Nothing that we see and nothing that exists is separate from us. We are all One being. While it feels good to embrace that unity with "nice" things like flower meadows, puppies, and dimpled children, we must also accept that we are One with all of the things we don't like. The more we dislike something, the more we want to put it outside of ourselves, over there somewhere, preferably in an unseen corner or closet where we don't have to deal with it. But the truth is, when we do this we are attempting to divide what cannot be divided. God cannot be fractured, and any attempt that we make to do this results in a fractured mind—in essence, the ego, who is invested in believing that it is separate from other things, and is therefore separate from God.

We purposely created the ego so that we could believe that we are separate from God, that we are limited. It enabled us to play this game, but now it's time to remember who we are. It's time to thank our ego for fulfilling its purpose and to return to unity consciousness again. In order to do that, we must overcome our judgments and release control. We must embrace the things that are not easy to love, as well as the things that are.

A great spiritual teacher once said that if you want to transform a thing, you must love it. Love transforms everything. Hate, dislike, and contempt, on the other hand, only increases distortion and makes a thing more hateful or contemptible. Dr. Masaru Emoto demonstrated this with his experiments on water crystals. Water that received loving thoughts and feelings before being frozen displayed the most beautiful, intricate crystals in its structure. On the other hand, if negative thoughts and feelings, such as hate and contempt, were directed at the water, the structure was distorted and chaotic. That's how powerful our thoughts are. (What thoughts and feelings do you direct at yourself every day?)

To love a thing is to have compassion for it and accept it without judgment. In the case of war and violence, this is difficult, because loving it feels like we must condone it. This is not the case. War and violence mirror the war and violence within ourselves. In reality, this is what we must learn to love:  our own imperfections. When we can love and accept ourselves unconditionally, we will cease to project violent feelings onto the world, and war and violence will cease to exist.

We are One with things like bombs, money, and addiction because we create them. There is no separation between the Creator and the Created. We are One with our Creator, and we are One with our Creations.

We have the power to create the entire world, and we do this every day, together, as One. In the past, we have done this unconsciously, unaware that our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs create our reality. But we are becoming aware. People are waking up, each in their own way. We are becoming conscious of what we create. As we learn to love our creations, they will change. They will heal—though not always in the way that we think. We don't have control over HOW a thing heals. That's God's job, because only God knows what that looks like. When we love a thing, we must suspend our judgment of it, because what we think needs to heal may not need healing at all.

The next time you encounter something or someone that you don't like, take a moment to direct love toward them:  unconditional, nonjudgmental Love. Accept them just as they are, right in this moment. Know that they are perfect right now, and thank them for showing you where you need to love yourself. Then love that in yourself. And let it be.

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