Becoming the thing that one hates

British PM draws up new strategy on extremists

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 Becoming the thing that one hates

It is said that one becomes what one hates. Self righteousness is blind to the needs of others and to the wholeness of life, and therefore to one's own true needs. Fear unfaced, and guilt and inner conflict unowned, operate unconsciously to propagate fear and conflict. The belief one can use fear to coerce others or manipulate outcomes to align a private agenda is a seduction to the illusion of power. An illusion that always opens to being thus manipulated oneself, and so made hollow and powerless to another's agenda.



These things can be known in the heart. The heart can be ignored. We all make choices. The choice to ignore the heart is the choice to be blind to the needs of others and to the wholeness of life and therefore one's own true needs. Such choice may seem justified by fear to have priority over all else. It operates as a reaction of conditioning and identity that becomes trapped in its own perspective - out of touch with, and blind to the needs of others and to the wholeness of life and therefore one's own true needs. It then defends itself against SIGHT - in the belief that anything that undermines its perceived struggle and goal IS the enemy.



The enemy is unfaced fear and unowned guilt and inner conflict. One cannot solve an inner problem externally - and attempt to do so will only protect the problem from healing by hiding it in the world. One does not get rid of hate with hate. One releases what is seen to be self-contradictory so as to restore a unified will. The attempt to unify self or nation over and against enemy or fear can never more than seem to momentarily work. The hunger for power over externally framed and un-owned inner issues, sacrifices life to the illusion of gaining or wielding such power.



This operates a false god. The recognition of unconflicted will, is the power to know your right relation within a wholeness of being. There is no coercion involved in being who you truly are. The coercive sense is born of conflicted fear. Facing fear in willingness to align with true, is not martyrdom, but humility that truly listens to others, to the discerning of wholeness in the situation and to the true movement of our heart's desire. When fear becomes normal currency, love may seem extreme and threatening. Therefore, in dealing with the fearful, honour the capacity of choosing without joining in negative choices - for the power to choose is the power to choose differently.



Demonzing choices gives them power of a negative charge. Of fear made real. Insanity and error or sickness of mind is not a weapon in war - but a condition calling for correction. Foolish, hurtful, and self-harming choices are to be seen as exactly so - and not personalized into a great evil upon which to re-structure human society. There are many such evils that are no less worthy of correction. Factions fixate on different facets and polarize each other in an extremism that denies the capacity to simply live a shared humanity, and would place terror on the altar of our desires in guise of righteous power and protection.

Power games corrupt; true power shares

War! Fight! War!
Divide and rule.
The conflicted,
hate and fear
their shadows,
but never look ,
within.
Hidden fear is contagion,
propagates hatred in self justifictions.

A loveless mentality
is a coercive mentality.
invoking opposition
to guarantee its
usurpation.
Using force and guile
in place of true
serving governance.

Extremism rejects
is non-embrace,
non-communication,
self-righteous cover up
for un-owned self.
We tend become the thing we hate
and bring to fruition that we fear
by the very designs to save us.

What really matters
is truly worthy
of embrace
and communication,
as the context of every thought
word and deed.

But see the pervasive mechanism
that deals out dream
and nightmare
to the 'powerless'.

The hollowing worship of power
cares not for gods
of politic, race or sexuality,
Excepting anything and everything
that serves the god of power
whose promise lost the Garden.

Where we give our attention
can be compelled or coerced
up to a point,
But then we wake to the ruse.
What we give attention to
is what we are valuing,
magnifying and nurturing.

The Garden provides abundance of lack
in attempt to get 'more' for our 'self' alone
divorcing us from a communioned Life.
Out of Eden is a 'mentality' wherein
victimhood and loss
serve as weapons of
mass distraction
and notional security.

Power games are corrupting.
True appreciation shares.
Without living from our true foundation
is a hollow fearful masked world
believed as if it alone
is what matters.

I would wake to that there is a choice
fear would not allow.
A perspective that self-hate denies.
A movement in the heart's whole knowing
that the fear of love by any means
denies to usurp.

Unless we recognize within our self
the sins we see in the other
we hate our self a stranger
and forsake that which reveals
instead our brother.

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