You don’t have to resonate with everyone. You cannot, for just as some notes on a piano do not sound harmonious when played together, you each have a unique tone. However, all notes make up the wholeness of what you call music, and within that wholeness, everything is valued. Play the dissonant notes and see how they feel. If you prefer a different combination, seek it out, but value each for the unique gifts you all bring to the symphony of life.
You are so very loved.
the messsage says i don’t have to resonate with everyone, but i have to value everyone. do i really have to value putin? i don’t and i don’t want to try. ???
You do know the best answer …is not necessarily your opinion. All our opinions of other people’s are loaded with shortcomings. Still, we do have opinions …yet we know they must be reined-in. They are not the be-all, end all. But, yea, you dont have to “entertain” them either. It is because we dont really know who they are or the whys of what they do… we can simply choose to not follow what seems to be “their ways”.
We hear you though. We all suffer from our opinions too. We are all on the journey together… just on different schedules.
Our responsibilities simply look different.
Personally, I interpret it as “you should value the luminous being that still lies below all the layers of distortion that he’s become.” But luckily we still have at least a freedom of thought, so you do you. By all means, recognizing that he’s (deep down) still a luminous being doesn’t prevent you (as it shouldn’t), as Mare says, to not follow him, or even more, to wage war against him. By extension, the same can apply to anyone else. After all, we still live in a world based on physical survival, and my impression is that only the techniques have evolved – from brute force to deceitful talking, and from strict survival to the quality of that survival – but the basic formula is still there. In this regard, I find the story of Pai Lok Nen and his last ruminations illuminating.